txtDefinition=In music, a {\uldb figure}{\v 149462} that repeats in a regular ascending or descending (or a combination) pattern. The sequence was the primary fuel of {\uldb Baroque}{\v 139635} music, but it was used more sparingly in the {\uldb Classical}{\v 131766} language. In the {\uldb passage}{\v 90954} from the first {\uldb movement}{\v 151907} below, the {\uldb violinist}{\v 105626} plays a fourfold descending sequence, each repetition of which sounds identical except for its successively lower placement.
