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thorough bass

    1. an old system for indicating accompanying chords by putting figures under the bass notes
    2. the figures used
  2. loosely the theory of harmony

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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