• Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound
• Bass (fish)
  Bass (fish)
  Bass is a name shared by many different species of popular gamefish. The term encompasses both freshwater and marine species. All belong to the large order Perciformes, or perch-like fishes, and in fact the word bass comes from Middle English bars, meaning "perch."-Types of basses:*The temperate...
  
  , various freshwater and saltwater species
• Bass Brewery, a British brewery

Music

• Bass clef, the musical clef used for lower-sounding instruments and voices
• Bass note
  Bass note
  In music theory, the bass note of a chord or sonority is the lowest note played or notated. If there are multiple voices it is the note played or notated in the lowest voice. While the bass note is often the root or fundamental of the chord, it does not have to be, and sometimes one of the other...
  
  , the lowest note in a chord
• Bassline
  Bassline
  A bassline is the term used in many styles of popular music, such as jazz, blues, funk, dub and electronic music for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, tuba or keyboard...
  
  , an instrumental part which is in the bass range
• Figured bass
  Figured bass
  Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of integer musical notation used to indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones, in relation to a bass note...
  
  , a kind of integer musical notation
• Bass (voice type)
  Bass (voice type)
  A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
  
  , a type of classical male singing voice
• Bass (instrument)
  Bass (instrument)
  Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
  
  , one of several instruments in the bass range
  • Acoustic bass guitar
    Acoustic bass guitar
    The acoustic bass guitar is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually somewhat larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar...
    
    , with a hollow body
  • Bass clarinet
    Bass clarinet
    The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
    
     a clarinet with a lower sound
  • Bass cornett, a low pitched wind instrument
  • Bass drum
    Bass drum
    Bass drums are percussion instruments that can vary in size and are used in several musical genres. Three major types of bass drums can be distinguished. The type usually seen or heard in orchestral, ensemble or concert band music is the orchestral, or concert bass drum . It is the largest drum of...
    
    , a large drum
  • Bass flute
    Bass flute
    The bass flute is the bass member of the flute family. It is in the key of C, pitched one octave below the concert flute. Because of the length of its tube , it is usually made with a "J" shaped head joint, which brings the embouchure hole within reach of the player...
    
    , an instrument one octave lower than a flute
  • Bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
    
    , with a solid body and electric pickups
  • Bass sarrusophone
    Bass Sarrusophone
    The B-flat bass sarrusophone is the bass member of the sarrusophone family of metal double reed instruments. It has a range almost identical to a bass saxophone. There are very few pieces written for it, although one of them includes Roupen Shakarian's Sarruso Rex. It is among the rarer of the...
    
    , a low pitched double reed instrument
  • Bass saxophone
    Bass saxophone
    The bass saxophone is the second largest member of the saxophone family. Its design is similar to that of the baritone saxophone, with a loop of tubing near the mouthpiece. It was the first type of saxophone presented to the public, when Adolphe Sax exhibited a bass saxophone in C at an exhibition...
    
    
  • Bass trombone, a lower pitched trombone
  • Bass trumpet
    Bass trumpet
    The bass trumpet is a type of low trumpet which was first developed during the 1820s in Germany. It is usually pitched in 8' C or 9' B today, but is sometimes built in E and is treated as a transposing instrument sounding either an octave, a sixth or a ninth lower than written, depending on the...
    
    
  • Double bass
    Double bass
    The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
    
    , the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument
  • Electric upright bass
    Electric upright bass
    The electric upright bass is an electronically amplified version of the double bass that has a minimal or 'skeleton' body, which greatly reduces the size and weight of the instrument. The EUB retains enough of the features of the double bass so that double bass players are comfortable performing...
    
    , the electric version of a double bass
  • Tuba
    Tuba
    The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
    
    , often called "the bass" in the context of brass instruments
• Bassline house
  Bassline house
  Bassline is a type of music related to UK garage that originated from speed garage, and shares characteristics with fellow subgenres dubstep and grime for their emphasis on bass. The style originated in Sheffield around 2002....
  
  , a type of electronic dance music
• Drum and bass
  Drum and bass
  Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
  
  , a type of electronic dance music
• Miami bass
  Miami bass
  Miami bass , is a type of hip hop music, that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Its roots are directly linked to the Electro-funk sound of the early 1980s, pioneered by Afrika Bambataa & The Soulsonic Force and later on by UK-based musician Paul Hardcastle...
  
  , a type of hip hop music
• Ghettotech
  Ghettotech
  Ghettotech or Detroit club music is a form of electronic dance music originating from Detroit. It combines elements of Chicago's ghetto house with electro, hip hop, techno, and grafts the perceived raunch of Miami Bass as the vocal stamp of the music. It is usually faster than most other dance...
  
   or Detroit Bass, a form of electronic dance music
• "Basses", a movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003
  Tubular Bells 2003
  Tubular Bells 2003 is an album by Mike Oldfield, released in 2003. It is a complete re-recording of Oldfield's 1973 album debut Tubular Bells, which had been released 30 years earlier.- Background :...
  
  album

Places

• Basses, Vienne
  Basses, Vienne
  Basses is a commune in the Vienne department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France....
  
   g-e-r-o-m-e
• Bass, Victoria
  Bass, Victoria
  Bass is a small rural town 113 kilometres  south-east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland and Bass Highways, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia...
  
  , a town in Australia
• Bass, West Virginia
  Bass, West Virginia
  Bass is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Bass lies along County Highway 7....
  
  
• Division of Bass
  Division of Bass
  The Division of Bass is an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania. The division was created in 1903 and is named for the explorer George Bass. It has always been based on the city of Launceston and surrounding rural areas, and its boundaries have changed very little in the century since its...
  
  , a federal electoral division in Tasmania, Australia
• Division of Bass (state)
  Division of Bass (state)
  The Electoral Division of Bass is one of the 5 electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, or lower house; it takes its name from the British Naval Surgeon and Explorer of Australia: George Bass. The division shares its name and boundaries with the federal division of Bass...
  
  , state electoral division in Tasmania, Australia
• Electoral district of Bass
  Electoral district of Bass
  The Electoral district of Bass is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is covers a diverse range of terrority, from outer suburban Pakenham to the rural towns of Lang Lang and Nar Nar Goon to the coastal tourist centres of Phillip Island and Inverloch. It is named after...
  
  , a state electoral division in Victoria, Australia
• Bass Strait
  Bass Strait
  Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.-Extent:The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Bass Strait as follows:...
  
  , between Australia and Tasmania
• Bass Pyramid
  Bass Pyramid
  The Bass Pyramid is a small, steep-sided granite island, with an area of The Bass Pyramid is a small, steep-sided granite island, with an area of...
  
  , an island in Bass Strait
• Bass Rock
  Bass Rock
  The Bass Rock, or simply The Bass, , is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. It is approximately offshore, and north-east of North Berwick. It is a steep-sided volcanic rock, at its highest point, and is home to a large colony of gannets...
  
  , wildlife sanctuary off the coast of Scotland
• Bass Performance Hall
  Bass Performance Hall
  The Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas is located in downtown Fort Worth near Sundance Square, occupies a whole city block, and was opened in 1998. It was built entirely with private funds and seats 2,056 people in a city with an estimated 2009 population of 720,250...
  
  , a performance hall in Fort Worth, Texas

Other uses

• BASS (audio library), a lightweight computer library for playing sound samples and streams, and recording sound.
• Bass (surname)
  Bass (surname)
  -Politics and government:*Charles Foster Bass , U.S. Representative from New Hampshire*Fred Bass, Canadian city councillor and environmentalist*John Bass , US state senator for Missouri...
  
  
• Bass (Mega Man), a character in Mega Man
• Bass.EXE, a character in Mega Man Battle Network
• Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.)
• Bass diffusion model
  Bass diffusion model
  rightThe Bass diffusion model was developed by Frank Bass and describes the process of how new products get adopted as an interaction between users and potential users. It has been described as one of the most famous empirical generalisations in marketing, along with the Dirichlet model of repeat...
  
  , a mathematical marketing model
• BASS: Beneath a Steel Sky
  Beneath a Steel Sky
  Beneath a Steel Sky is a 1994 science-fiction point-and-click adventure game in the cyberpunk genre. Like many point-and-click adventure games, it features comedy elements, and was developed by Revolution Software, a British developer, and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was...
  
  , computer game
• G. H. Bass, a clothing brand owned by Phillips-Van Heusen

See also

• Bass River (disambiguation)
• Sea bass (disambiguation), various types of fish
• "Bass", a song by Jesus Jones
  Jesus Jones
  Jesus Jones are a British rock band. The Wiltshire-based group, formed in late 1988, recorded and performed in the late 1980s, throughout the 1990s, and into the 2000s. They are best remembered for their track, "Right Here, Right Now", an international hit and subsequently globally appropriated for...
  
   from the album Culture Vulture !
  Culture Vulture (album)
  Culture Vulture is the sixth release by the British rock band Jesus Jones in 2004. This is an EP, not an album. The EP also contained 7 additional tracks splitting up the original Culture Vulture track into its components. This was done to encourage their fans to remix the song...