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Musicology

a descending four-note bass line, often chromatic, that served as a conventional emblem of grief in seventeenth-century music.

In musicology, lament bass refers to a descending four-note bass line, often chromatic, that served as a conventional emblem of grief in seventeenth-century music. This meaning comes from Rosand (1979) in The Musical Quarterly.[1]

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References

Rosand, E. (1979). The Descending Tetrachord: An Emblem of Lament. The Musical Quarterly, LXV(3), 346-359. https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/lxv.3.346

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