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Lament bass, the Glossary

In music, the lament bass is a ground bass, built from a descending perfect fourth from tonic to dominant, with each step harmonized.^[1]

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Accompaniment
Chord progressions
Music semiology

Aeolian mode

The Aeolian mode is a musical mode or, in modern usage, a diatonic scale also called the natural minor scale.

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The Andalusian cadence (diatonic phrygian tetrachord) is a term adopted from flamenco music for a chord progression comprising four chords descending stepwise – a iv–III–II–I progression with respect to the Phrygian mode or i–VII–VI–V progression with respect to the Aeolian mode (minor). Lament bass and Andalusian cadence are chord progressions.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.

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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music.

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Any Time at All

"Any Time at All" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.

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Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a folk song written by Anne Bredon in the late 1950s.

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Bills, Bills, Bills

"Bills, Bills, Bills" is a song by American girl group Destiny's Child from their second studio album, The Writing's on the Wall (1999).

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Brain Stew / Jaded

"Brain Stew" and "Jaded" are two songs released as a joint single by American rock band Green Day.

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Bye Bye Bye

"Bye Bye Bye" is a song by American boy band NSYNC from their third studio album, No Strings Attached.

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Chaconne in F minor

Chaconne in F minor (PWC 43, T. 206, PC 149, POP 16) is an organ chaconne by Johann Pachelbel.

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Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1967.

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Chromatic fourth

In music theory, a chromatic fourth, or passus duriusculus,Monelle, Raymond (2000). Lament bass and chromatic fourth are music semiology.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.

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Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground

"Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" is a song by American garage rock band the White Stripes, featured on their 2001 third studio album White Blood Cells.

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Descending tetrachord

In music theory, the descending tetrachord is a series of four notes from a scale, or tetrachord, arranged in order from highest to lowest, or descending order.

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Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child was an American musical girl group whose final lineup comprised Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams.

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Diatonic and chromatic

Diatonic and chromatic are terms in music theory that are used to characterize scales.

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Dido's Lament

Dido's Lament ("When I am laid in earth") is the closing aria from the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell to a libretto by Nahum Tate.

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Dominant (music)

In music, the dominant is the fifth scale degree of the diatonic scale.

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Donovan

Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Dumbo

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Feature film

A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

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Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period.

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Girl (Beatles song)

"Girl" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul.

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Goldfrapp

Goldfrapp are an English electronic music duo from London, formed in 1999.

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Green Day

Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990.

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Harmony

In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling.

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Harry S. Miller

Harry S. Miller (born 1867 – 20th century, date unknown) was an American lyricist, composer, and sometimes playwright who lived in New York and Chicago in the 19th and early 20th centuries and is best known for his song "The Cat Came Back", published in 1893.

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film written for the screen and directed by John Cameron Mitchell.

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (soundtrack)

''Hedwig and the Angry Inch'' is a 1998 musical about a fictional rock and roll band of the same name fronted by an East German gay man living as a woman, with a book by John Cameron Mitchell (who also played the title role in the original production and film), and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (rare:; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music.

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Hit the Road Jack

"Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues singer Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles.

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Homophony

In music, homophony (Greek: ὁμόφωνος, homóphōnos, from ὁμός, homós, "same" and φωνή, phōnē, "sound, tone") is a texture in which a primary part is supported by one or more additional strands that provide the harmony.

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I'll Be Back (song)

"I'll Be Back" is a song written by John Lennon, with some collaboration from Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney).

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I'll Follow the Sun

"I'll Follow the Sun" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles.

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Italian opera

Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is a sung-through rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.

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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.

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Johann Pachelbel

Johann Pachelbel (also Bachelbel; baptised – buried 9 March 1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Magical Mystery Tour

Magical Mystery Tour is a record by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a double EP in the United Kingdom and an LP in the United States.

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Michelle (song)

"Michelle" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul.

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Minor scale

In western classical music theory, the minor scale refers to three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending).

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Muse (band)

Muse are an English rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994.

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Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

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My Funny Valentine

"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green.

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NSYNC

NSYNC (also stylized as *NSYNC or N Sync) are an American vocal group and boy band formed by Chris Kirkpatrick in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich.

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Ostinato

In music, an ostinato (derived from the Italian word for stubborn, compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch. Lament bass and ostinato are Accompaniment and bass (sound).

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Paranoid Android

"Paranoid Android" is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the lead single from their third studio album, OK Computer (1997), on 26 May 1997.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter known both for his solo work and his collaboration with Art Garfunkel.

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Percy Mayfield

Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920August 11, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer with a smooth vocal style.

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Perfect fourth

A fourth is a musical interval encompassing four staff positions in the music notation of Western culture, and a perfect fourth is the fourth spanning five semitones (half steps, or half tones).

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Pink Elephants on Parade

"Pink Elephants on Parade" is a song and scene from the 1941 Disney animated feature film Dumbo in which Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse, having accidentally become intoxicated (through drinking water spiked with champagne), see pink elephants sing, dance, and play musical instruments during a hallucination sequence.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Rodgers and Hart

Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895–1943).

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period).

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Ryom-Verzeichnis

The Ryom-Verzeichnis or Ryom Verzeichnis (both often abbreviated RV) is the standard catalogue of the music of Antonio Vivaldi created by Danish musicologist Peter Ryom.

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Semitone

A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.

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Sorrow (emotion)

Sorrow is an emotion, feeling, or sentiment.

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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" is a song written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin.

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Stray Cat Strut

"Stray Cat Strut" is the third single by American rockabilly band Stray Cats, released April 17, 1981 by Arista Records in the UK, where it peaked at No.

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Stray Cats

Stray Cats are an American rockabilly band formed in 1979 by guitarist and vocalist Brian Setzer, double bassist Lee Rocker, and drummer Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New York.

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Tetrachord

In music theory, a tetrachord (τετράχορδoν; tetrachordum) is a series of four notes separated by three intervals.

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The Apple Tree

The Apple Tree is a series of three musical playlets with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and a book by Bock and Harnick with contributions from Jerome Coopersmith.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Cat Came Back

"The Cat Came Back" is a comic song written by Harry S. Miller in Christmas 1893.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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The White Stripes

The White Stripes were an American rock duo formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1997.

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Tonic (music)

In music, the tonic is the first scale degree of the diatonic scale (the first note of a scale) and the tonal center or final resolution tone that is commonly used in the final cadence in tonal (musical key-based) classical music, popular music, and traditional music.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament_bass

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Accompaniment

Chord progressions

Music semiology

References