What is figured bass in music?

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What is figured bass in music?

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It’s a very old notation system for writing the chords for music, used about 400 years ago in the baroque period. It consists of the bass note to be played, with numbers and other symbols like sharps or flats to denote what other notes are to be played above the bass note.

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