Bass or Basses may refer to:

Fish

Bass (fish) Bass () is a name shared by many species of fish. The term encompasses both freshwater and marine species, all belonging to the large order Perciformes, or perch-like fishes. The word ''bass'' comes from Middle English , meaning 'perch'. Types ...

, various saltwater and freshwater species

Music

* Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass guitar, with a hollow body **

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 (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...

, a clarinet with a lower sound ** Bass cornett, a low pitched wind instrument **

Bass drum The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum's diameter much greater than the drum's depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. Th ...

, a large drum **

Bass flute The bass flute is a member of the flute family. It is in the key of C, pitched one octave below the concert flute. Despite its name, its playing range makes it the tenor member of the flute family. Because of the length of its tube (approximate ...

, an instrument one octave lower than a flute ** Bass guitar, with a solid body and electric pickups **

Bass recorder A bass recorder is a wind instrument in Scientific pitch notation, F3 that belongs to the family of Recorder (musical instrument), recorders. The bass recorder plays an octave lower than the Alto recorder, alto or treble recorder. In the recor ...

, an instrument one octave lower than the alto recorder **

Bass sarrusophone The bass sarrusophone is the bass member of the sarrusophone family of metal double reed conical bore wind instruments. Pitched in the key of B♭, it has a range almost identical to the bass saxophone, and can cover the bassoon range up to F. H ...

, a low pitched double reed instrument ** Bass saxophone **

Bass trombone The bass trombone (german: Bassposaune, it, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. Modern instruments are pitched in the same B♭ as the tenor trombone but with a larger bore, bell and mouthpiece to ...

, a lower pitched trombone ** Bass trumpet ** Bass violin ** Double bass, the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument ** Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass ** Tuba, often called "the bass" in the context of brass instruments *

Bass (voice type) A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', a bass is typically classified as having a vocal range extending from around the second E b ...

, a type of classical male singing voice *

Bass clef A clef (from French: 'key') is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical stave. Placing a clef on a stave assigns a particular pitch to one of the five lines, which defines the pit ...

, the musical clef used for lower-sounding instruments and voices * Bass music, broad category of electronic dance music genres, focusing on a prominent bass drum and/or bassline sound * Bass note, the lowest note in a chord *

Bassline Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, Dub music, dub and electronic music, electronic, traditional music, traditional, or classical music for the low-pitched Part ( ...

, or bass line, a term used in music for a lower-pitched part * "Bass", audio file on ''Culture Vulture'' (EP) by Jesus Jones (2004) * "Bass (How Low Can You Go)", a 1988 single by Simon Harris; also his 1989 album ''Bass!'' * "Basses", a movement of Mike Oldfield's '' Tubular Bells 2003'' album

Businesses and organizations

* Bass Brewery, a British brewery * Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.) * G.H. Bass & Co., an American footwear brand founded in 1876

People

* Bass (surname) * Bass Reeves (1838–1910), notable deputy U.S. marshal

Fictional characters

* Chuck Bass, a fictional character in the novel and television series ''Gossip Girl'' * Bass Armstrong, a character from ''Dead or Alive'' * Bass Monroe, fictional character in ''Revolution'' * Bass and Bass.EXE, ''Mega Man'' characters

Places

Australia

Bass Strait Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterwa ...

, between Australia and Tasmania * Bass Pyramid, a small island in the Bass Strait *

Bass, Victoria Bass () is a small rural town south-east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland and Bass Highways, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. At the 2006 census, Bass and the surrounding area had a population of 937. The town is ...

, a town in Australia * Division of Bass, a federal electoral division in Tasmania, Australia * Division of Bass (state), state electoral division in Tasmania, Australia * Electoral district of Bass, a state electoral division in Victoria, Australia *

Shire of Bass The Shire of Bass was a Local government in Australia, local government area about south-southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1871 until 1994. I ...

, a former local government area in Victoria, Australia

United States

* Bass, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama, U.S. *

Bass, Arkansas Bass is an unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States. Bass is located on Arkansas Highway 74, southeast of Jasper Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral ...

, an unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, U.S. *

Bass, Casey County, Kentucky Bass is an unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders I ...

, U.S. *

Bass, Missouri Bass is an unincorporated community in Cole County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area ...

, U.S. *

Bass, West Virginia Bass is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau an ...

, U.S. * Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, or simply Bass Performance Hall, in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.

Elsewhere

Bass, Hansi Bass is a municipal committee town and sub-district (Tehsil) in the Indian state of Haryana. It is classified as a ''mahagram'' (a large village), with 4 subsections (Bass Badshahpur, Bass Khurd Bejan, Bass Akbarpur and Bass Azamshahpur). Bass ...

, a sub-tehsil of Hisar district, Haryana, India *

Bass River (disambiguation) Bass River may refer to: Australia * Bass River (Victoria), a relatively short coastal river Canada * Bass River, Nova Scotia, an unincorporated rural community in Colchester County and small river therein located * Bass River, Kent County, an uni ...

* Bass Rock, or the Bass, an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland *

Basses, Vienne Basses () is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. See also *Communes of the Vienne department The following is a list of the 266 communes of the Vienne department of France Fra ...

, a commune of the Vienne department in France

Other uses

Bass diffusion model The Bass model or Bass diffusion model was developed by Frank Bass. It consists of a simple differential equation that describes the process of how new products get adopted in a population. The model presents a rationale of how current adopters and ...

, or Bass model, a mathematical marketing model * ''

Beneath a Steel Sky ''Beneath a Steel Sky'' is a 1994 cyberpunk science fiction point-and-click adventure game developed by British developer Revolution Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for MS-DOS and Amiga home computers. The game was m ...

'', a 1994 computer adventure game * Buttocks, in slang * , a freeware cross-platform audio library and API * USS ''Bass'', several vessels of the U.S. Navy