Generalbass

Basso continuo - technique of improvisation and accompaniment, common in Baroque music. This event is the 1554^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 401^st most popular event in German Wikipedia. Article “Generalbass” in German Wikipedia has 76.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 38 references and 20 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.01 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Generalbass”, its content was written by 195 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 810 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Basso continuo is on the 401^st place in local ranking of events in German Wikipedia and on the 1554^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 1486 times in German Wikipedia (7025^th place) and cited 7930 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1936 in July 2003
• Global: #5077 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #13226 in November 2009
• Global: #49021 in May 2009

There are 31 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Generalbass		76.1776
2	Turkish (tr) Sürekli bas		40.7125
3	Croatian (hr) Generalbas		37.0048
4	Hebrew (he) באסו קונטינואו		31.2464
5	French (fr) Basse continue		31.0009
6	Spanish (es) Bajo continuo		29.8431
7	Galician (gl) Baixo continuo		25.7766
8	Italian (it) Basso continuo		23.0339
9	Danish (da) Generalbas		20.9263
10	Polish (pl) Basso continuo		18.7454

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Generalbass" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Generalbass		1 125 492
2	English (en) Basso continuo		891 608
3	Japanese (ja) 通奏低音		489 172
4	Spanish (es) Bajo continuo		486 262
5	French (fr) Basse continue		336 581
6	Italian (it) Basso continuo		327 478
7	Simple English (simple) Basso continuo		306 989
8	Polish (pl) Basso continuo		231 440
9	Dutch (nl) Basso continuo		139 760
10	Portuguese (pt) Baixo contínuo		85 868

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Generalbass" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Basso continuo		3 778
2	Japanese (ja) 通奏低音		2 152
3	German (de) Generalbass		1 936
4	French (fr) Basse continue		1 054
5	Italian (it) Basso continuo		974
6	Spanish (es) Bajo continuo		725
7	Simple English (simple) Basso continuo		540
8	Polish (pl) Basso continuo		379
9	Chinese (zh) 通奏低音		208
10	Czech (cs) Basso continuo		199

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Generalbass" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Generalbass		195
2	French (fr) Basse continue		72
3	Italian (it) Basso continuo		64
4	Spanish (es) Bajo continuo		61
5	English (en) Basso continuo		44
6	Polish (pl) Basso continuo		35
7	Dutch (nl) Basso continuo		33
8	Hebrew (he) באסו קונטינואו		32
9	Japanese (ja) 通奏低音		31
10	Swedish (sv) Generalbas		30

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Generalbass" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) באסו קונטינואו		1
2	Catalan (ca) Baix continu		0
3	Czech (cs) Basso continuo		0
4	Danish (da) Generalbas		0
5	German (de) Generalbass		0
6	English (en) Basso continuo		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Figurita baso		0
8	Spanish (es) Bajo continuo		0
9	Estonian (et) Generaalbass		0
10	Persian (fa) باسو کنتینوئو		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Generalbass" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Generalbass		1 486
2	English (en) Basso continuo		962
3	French (fr) Basse continue		899
4	Italian (it) Basso continuo		803
5	Spanish (es) Bajo continuo		629
6	Catalan (ca) Baix continu		523
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Generalbass		322
8	Dutch (nl) Basso continuo		316
9	Japanese (ja) 通奏低音		279
10	Norwegian (no) Generalbass		264

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Baix continu
cs	Czech Basso continuo
da	Danish Generalbas
de	German Generalbass
en	English Basso continuo
eo	Esperanto Figurita baso
es	Spanish Bajo continuo
et	Estonian Generaalbass
fa	Persian باسو کنتینوئو
fi	Finnish Basso continuo
fr	French Basse continue
gl	Galician Baixo continuo
he	Hebrew באסו קונטינואו
hr	Croatian Generalbas
hu	Hungarian Basso continuo
hy	Armenian Գեներալ-Բաս
it	Italian Basso continuo
ja	Japanese 通奏低音
nl	Dutch Basso continuo
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Generalbass
no	Norwegian Generalbass
pl	Polish Basso continuo
pt	Portuguese Baixo contínuo
ro	Romanian Basso continuo
simple	Simple English Basso continuo
sk	Slovak Generálny bas
sl	Slovenian Generalbas
sr	Serbian Континуо
sv	Swedish Generalbas
tr	Turkish Sürekli bas
zh	Chinese 通奏低音

Best Rank

German: #13226 11.2009

Global: #49021 05.2009

Best Rank

German: #1936 07.2003

Global: #5077 12.2001

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