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The 9 pages that link to Figured bass, each with the reason it gives.

• Baroque musicBroader topic: Its shorthand guided performers who improvised the continuo harmonies.

• Basso continuoRelated: Its figures guide the chordal instrument’s realization of the continuo bass.

• Music theoryBroader topic: It shows how harmonic principles guide performance from a compact written shorthand.

• Musical notationBroader topic: It leaves chord voicing partly to performers while specifying harmonic relationships.

• HarmonyRelated: It records harmonic structure while leaving much of the realization to performers.

• Musical improvisationRelated: It documents a historical practice where written cues invited real-time realization.

• MonodyBroader topic: These figures let continuo players realize the harmonies beneath a monodic melody.

• Nadia BoulangerRelated: Its practical analysis of harmony formed part of the historical musicianship she taught.

• Roman numeral analysisRelated: Its figures were adapted to describe inversion and interval structure in numeral analysis.