var nc = 13,
fc = new Array(nc);
fc[0] = {t:"figured bass",d:"Baroque practice consisting of an independent bass line that often includes numerals indicating the harmony to be supplied by the basso continuo keyboard player. Also thorough-bass. (page 100)"};
fc[1] = {t:"basso continuo",d:"Italian for \"continuous bass.\" See figured bass. Also refers to a performance group with a chordal instrument (harpsichord, organ) and one bass melody instrument (cello, bassoon); also continuo. (page 100)"};
fc[2] = {t:"major-minor tonality",d:"A harmonic system based on the use of major and minor scales, widely practiced from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. See also tonality. (page 100)"};
fc[3] = {t:"opera",d:"Music drama that is generally sung throughout, combining the resources of vocal and instrumental music with poetry and drama, acting and dancing, scenery and costumes. See also aria, recitative. (page 100)"};
fc[4] = {t:"castrato",d:"Male singer who was castrated during boyhood to preserve his soprano or alto vocal register; prominent in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century opera. (page 101)"};
fc[5] = {t:"improvisation",d:"The creation of music while it is being performed, as in Baroque embellishment, cadenzas of concertos, jazz, and some non-Western musics. (page 102)"};
fc[6] = {t:"recitative",d:"Solo vocal declamation that follows the inflections of the text, often resulting in a disjunct vocal style; found in opera, cantata, and oratorio. Can be secco or accompagnato. (page 104)"};
fc[7] = {t:"aria",d:"Lyric song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment, generally expressing intense emotion; found in opera, cantata, and oratorio. (page 104)"};
fc[8] = {t:"overture",d:"An introductory movement, as in an opera or oratorio, often presenting melodies from arias to come. Also an orchestral work for concert performance. (page 104)"};
fc[9] = {t:"sinfonia",d:"Short instrumental work, found in Baroque opera, to facilitate scene changes. (page 104)"};
fc[10] = {t:"libretto",d:"Text or script of an opera, oratorio, cantata, or musical (also called the \"book\" in a musical). (page 104)"};
fc[11] = {t:"masque",d:"English genre of aristocratic entertainment that combined vocal and instrumental music with poetry and dance, developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (page 105)"};
fc[12] = {t:"ground bass",d:"A repeating melody, usually in the bass, throughout a vocal or instrumental composition. (page 106)"};