Praetorius calls the next-lower instrument ( bottom note B 2 ) a " bass ", and the instrument an octave lower than the basset ( with bottom note F 2 ) a " Gro�ba?", or " large bass " (; ).
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Avuncular and almost frail in his late 60s, though with astonishing mastery of complex guitar patterns, Gilberto croaked tonelessly in his bottom notes and barely whispered in his middle range but sent out little ribbons of treble notes so pure and so loaded with emotion as to set the nerve ends to tingling.
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There were also solid contributions by Luiz-Ottavio Faria, whose powerful, rounded bottom notes added a touch of gravity to the sober role of Alidoro, Ramiro's tutor; Deborah Massell and Nancy Rathbun, who gave fine portrayals of Clorinda and Tisbe, Cenerentola's egotistical, mean-spirited sisters, and Christopher Mooney, who sang ably as their father, Don Magnifico.
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Her wide vocal range allows Carey to take melodies from alto bottom notes to coloratura soprano upper register . " Her sense of pitch is admired and Jon Pareles adds " she can linger over sensual turns, growl with playful confidence, syncopate like a scat singer . . . with startlingly exact pitch ."
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Maunder ( who uses the term " multiple-broken short octave " ) observes that the Viennese bass octave, like its predecessors, imposed distortions on the string scaling of the harpsichord : it " leads to extreme foreshortening of the scale in the bass . " Hence, it required unusually thick strings for the bottom notes, on the order of.
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Reading the interval notation is somewhat complicated by the fact that some staves use bottom up notation ( the bottom note of each chord is specified and intervals are read upwards from the given note ) and some staves use top down notation ( the top note of each chord is specified and intervals are read downwards from the given note ).
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For example, if a continuo part in the key of C begins with a C bass note in the first measure, which descends to a B in the second measure, even if there was no figures, the chord-playing instrumentalist would deduce that this was most likely a first inversion dominant chord ( spelled B D G, from bottom note of the chord to the top ).
