Basso continuo is an Italian term that means continuous bass.That's why the style is called figured bass. In figured bass, composers wrote out only the bass lines and melodies. Instead of filling in all the music's chords, they wrote numbers (called figures) below the bass line.
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for confirmation, modern music sheets filled out all? thats their difference?
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Basso continuo is an Italian term that means continuous bass.That's why the style is called figured bass. In figured bass, composers wrote out only the bass lines and melodies. Instead of filling in all the music's chords, they wrote numbers (called figures) below the bass line.