The ground bass figure for the guitar dance and the adaptation of the hornpipe are included in the 1961 Novello edition of the score, prepared by Margaret Laurie and Thurston Dart.
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An important technique used in baroque music was the use of ground bass, a repeated bass line . " Dido's Lament " by Henry Purcell is a famous example of this technique.
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The ground bass, if there is one, may typically descend stepwise from the scale; the harmonies given to the upper parts may emphasize the circle of fifths or a derivative pattern thereof.
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The other collections exploit the same bewitching scordatura sound; they also draw on French dances, Italian polyphony and the German version of the chaconne, with its hypnotic rapid variations over a ground bass.
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The second movement opens with a broken chord oscillation typical of Glass, and the low strings and woodwind begin the descending ground bass pattern that they will repeat for the duration of the movement.
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Or the devotional " Evening Hymn, " a perfect sonic illustration of deepening twilight : one of Purcell's most mesmerizing ground basses droops gently down as the voice floats upward into dark blue air.
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The ground bass on which the entire set of variations is built is heard perhaps most explicitly in this variation ( as well as in the Quodlibet ) due to the simplicity of the bass voice.
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The procedure of using a simple repeating line in this manner was to be revived in the Baroque era, most often as a ground bass, and again in the cantatas of J . S . Bach.
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The vividly depicted circles found expression in a recurring " ground bass ", underpinning a gradual crescendo in texture and intensity; the spectral dancers were alluded to in an irregular, agitato passage in 5 / 8.
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Examples can also be found in late-sixteenth-and seventeenth-century instrumental music, for instance in the canzonas, sonatas, and suites by composers such as Samuel Scheidt, in which a ground bass may recur in each movement (; ).
