Music GCSE
Figured bass realisation
What Figured bass realisation means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Figured bass realisation
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Completing the harmony by reading the figures to add chords, done by a chord-playing instrument such as harpsichord, organ or lute.
Topics that use Figured bass realisation
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Sonority and texture (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Accompaniment and harmony
- Basso continuo
- Changes of sonority
- Homophonic
- Imitation and contrapuntal writing
- Listening and identification
- Monophonic
- Monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic textures
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