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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Bass chantante

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71073Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — Bass chantanteJohn Weeks Moore

Bass chantante. (F.) Singing bass. This expression is applied to any bass, the notes of which flow in a smooth and pleasing manner ; forming in themselves, independently of the superior parts, a grateful kind of melody. Not the fundamental bass, but the second, or melodious bass.