How To Use Ostinato In A Sentence
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The ostinato rhythms and other exotic complications produce music that seems to come from the Far East.
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Usually a drummer plays these rhythmic ostinatos throughout a section or a whole piece, and then repeats them using improvisatory variations.
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The accompaniment is an ostinato that sticks to the memory like a burr and becomes hypnotic.
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The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos.
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Never one to resort to simple open chord strums, Matthews spryly plucked circular ostinatos and buoyant chordal riffs to power the band's string of memorable hits.
Tuesday Tune: 'Satellite' by The Dave Matthews Band
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But if Hamasyan likes embroidering gentle folk melodies and combining them with a little liltingly tranquil singing too, his power at a keyboard always throbs below the surface in rolling, ostinato patterns, chord-clamouring climaxes and whirling folk dances.
This week's new live music
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Its bitonal ostinato and airy, whimsical melodies floating above create a convincing aural equivalent of a mirage.
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In modern music we have small ostinato figurations, note-groups or rhythms, which form the background to musical sections.
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Implacable," the first of several Klein compositions on the album, starts with an ostinato on Rhodes piano by Mr. Klein.
Ralph A. Miriello: Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein Join Forces to Create the Compelling Beinestan
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‘Distant Drums’ is marked by a staccato, open-fifth ostinato pattern in the left hand, over which the chromatic-based melody reigns in the right hand.
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The violin sonata in F opens with an ostinato that surely outstays its welcome.
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The role of the person who is learning to improvise is to make up just one simple part, such as an ostinato or a new melody or a variation to the basic rhythm.
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There is the continuous shake, handed on from instrument to instrument, the slashing figure of the upper strings, the kind of basso ostinato, conventionally indicating the galloping of horses, and the chief melody, a mere bugle-call, altered by a change of rhythm into a thing of superb strength.
Richard Wagner
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He speaks in lurchy, barely articulate ejaculations, set to curiously clunky music that in its effort to avoid fluid femininity slips at times into rather conventional patterns like imitative counterpoint and ostinatos.
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Its bitonal ostinato and airy, whimsical melodies floating above create a convincing aural equivalent of a mirage.
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Never one to resort to simple open chord strums, Matthews spryly plucked circular ostinatos and buoyant chordal riffs to power the band's string of memorable hits.
Tuesday Tune: 'Satellite' by The Dave Matthews Band
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The ostinato in the manuals is also regular, until it moves at the end of bar 27.
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Few conductors today capture both the insistent ostinato violence of the score and the heartfelt lyrical thread woven through it as Rattle does.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ostinatos Ostinatos occur as a brief recurring motif or as a repeating bass in the form of a chaconne or ground.
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The accompaniment is an ostinato that sticks to the memory like a burr and becomes hypnotic.
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Evolving melodies over harmonic/rhythmic ostinatos; ornate melodies over drones - do these count as techniques?
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Molasses-slow, set off by brushes and a disconsolate bass ostinato, her dramaturgy is shimmering and tragic without seeming mawkish.
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From its first unsettling minutes, where piano, flutes, violins, harp and tuned percussion trill, pluck and flutter over a gently dissonant ostinato bass, the symphony unfolds an almost seamless 26-minute structure.
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The first section is built on a machine-like ostinato in toccata form that travels from the violas to the first violins, and eventually to the entire orchestra.
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Glass' score trades in many of his familiar musical fingerprints - pulsing ostinatos, repeating rhythms, short vocal lines based on simple melodic ideas treated in parlando, or conversational, style.
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Through a chromatic mist of string ostinatos, a plainsong chorale gradually emerges in the brass climaxing in resplendent fanfares, before fading away into a haze of sound as the procession recedes.
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The guitar piece flows through multiple movements, some full of frenzied rhythms and interlocking ostinatos, others brimming with melodic grace.
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There's this chaconne-like cantata BuxWV 92 "Quemadmodum desiderat cervus" -- the Psalm "As the hart desireth the waterbrook" auf Lateinsich -- that has a two-bar basso ostinato that's repeated 64 times.
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change
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It is clear that full physical involvement aids learning, and that the subjective body experience is central to primal rhythmic elements of music like tempo, accelerando, syncopation, and ostinato.
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It too plays up the one-note ostinato and fools around with the major-third idea, sometimes sounding it backwards, sometimes upside-down.
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It is to be found in the basso ostinato, a repeated bass line over which a keyboard player or lutenist improvises chords and a singer or player evolves a melody.
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Lully was famous for his composition of extended passacailles, pieces based on the ostinato repetition of repeating bass line, usually on a four-bar, stepwise descending bass line, the minor mode tetrachord from do to sol.
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Lully was famous for his composition of extended passacailles, pieces based on the ostinato repetition of repeating bass line, usually on a four-bar, stepwise descending bass line, the minor mode tetrachord from do to sol.
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The first movement revolves around a haunting ostinato which forms the motto theme of the quintet (a typical Franckian device) and develops throughout the movement.
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Deneff exploits rock idioms, such as rapidly repeated chords, ostinato bass lines and syncopated rhythms, but with little variation of content.
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Through a chromatic mist of string ostinatos, a plainsong chorale gradually emerges in the brass climaxing in resplendent fanfares, before fading away into a haze of sound as the procession recedes.
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Movement III unfolds as a graceful pastorale in 6/8 time, presenting the melody twice in its entirety, adding gravity through use of an ostinato-like pedal line.
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Snippets of waltz occasionally float through, the Mozart connection abruptly contrasted by ostinatos, lilting chords, and variants of the Mozartian melody in Russian sounding woodwind lines.
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Park's "Chronos" features an ostinato bass line that allows Redman to explore vestiges of Middle Eastern music on the melody.
Ralph A. Miriello: Review of the 2011 Jazz Festival at Beautiful Caramoor, Katonah, NY
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In the 17th century the development of the basso continuo led to a proliferation of fixed-bass variation types, especially ostinato dances like the passacaglia and chaconne.
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Its three highly creative pieces use alternating meters, compelling ostinatos, modal harmonies and, above all, unexpected twists and turns as the ‘plot’ of each piece unfolds.
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A favourite move is to team a delicate melody with a rippling bass ostinato that gradually swells in intensity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first song starts with a spacey, slow, swing groove on a bass and guitar ostinato and breaks into a medium swing feel with fairly static harmony.
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Like pieces from a musician, her collection of poetry vamps through various repeated patterns and themes truly fulfilling the ‘ostinato’ description in her title.
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The vocal lines are simple and folk-like, the piano accompaniments full of drones and ostinatos, where the composer is clearly evoking the sounds of Finnish folk instruments such as the kantele, a bowed zither.
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Herrmann also introduced audiences to his affection for ostinato—short, repeated phrases of a few notes—a device he would use repeatedly throughout his career.
'Psycho' Maestro at 100
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Moran intersperses breathtaking flights of improvisation with vamps, ostinatos, and stride techniques.
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All around his steadfast melodies, Davell Crawford was a tsunami of improvisation: surging ostinatos and florid filigree, tremolo chords and keyboard-spanning glissandos, excess as exaltation.
Jazzfest: More from The Stomp - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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Those trademark ostinatos can become overwhelming, but when the band hit their stride, the results are nothing less than exhilarating.
Times, Sunday Times
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The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos.
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The piece slowly unfolds, with the composer's guitar ostinato setting the mood: it's a perfect sound, with just the right amount of reverberation.
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Through a chromatic mist of string ostinatos, a plainsong chorale gradually emerges in the brass climaxing in resplendent fanfares, before fading away into a haze of sound as the procession recedes.
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He exploits rock idioms, such as rapidly repeated chords, ostinato bass lines and syncopated rhythms, but with little variation of content.
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Usually a drummer plays these rhythmic ostinatos throughout a section or a whole piece, and then repeats them using improvisatory variations.
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Musically it unfolds far too sedately, with vocal declamation over smoothly contoured orchestral ostinatos, pitched somewhere between recent Philip Glass and the John Adams of The Death of Klinghoffer, as the default musical idiom.
Two Boys - review
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The verses are doused in glockenspiel and well-blended synth and recorder, while the chorus positively soars on electric piano ostinatos and fluid bass.
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They are a kind of basso ostinato for the diplomats who gather and gab.
