Alberti bass
noun
Al·ber·ti bass
al-ˈbər-tē
äl-ˈber-
: a repeated accompaniment figure (see figure entry 1 sense 15) common in 18th-century keyboard music that usually consists of the notes of a triad played in steady eighth or sixteenth notes in the order lowest-highest-middle-highest
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