bass
/beɪs/ nom C2En français : basse
- A low spectrum of sound tones. · Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass.
- A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor. · The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.
- One who sings in the bass range. · Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.
- An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a bass guitar, double bass, electric bass, or bass synthesiser. · The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.
- The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C.
Pluriel basses
Dans la bibliothèque
They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.
There were collected and piled up all Albert’s successive caprices, hunting-horns, bass-viols, flutes—a whole orchestra, for Albert had had not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils—for music had been succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and single-sticks—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy’s education, i.e., fencing, boxing, and single-stick; and it was here that he received Grisier, Cooks, and Charles Leboucher.
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