If we have all-girls choirs where are our tenors and basses to come from?
Only a few of these schemata - famous basses like la romanesca and la folia - are still recognized today.
The percussion rhythms migrate into cellos and basses, acquiring pitches.
Likewise, high-quality double basses seem to produce louder low frequency components than low-quality double basses.
A second section introduces the cellos and basses, pulling down the center of the music - but somehow it remains weightless.
But the tenors and basses of the prisoners' chorus sing exactly the same words and notes as the tenors and basses of the people's chorus.
From this he went to chorales; first he added the basses to them himself, and they had to invent the alto and tenor.
There are several pieces with four-note pedes: these seem to be harmonic basses.