In music, an ostinato (Italian: [ostiˈnaːto]; derived from the Italian word for stubborn, compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently...

Canto Ostinato ("Obstinate Song" (as ostinato)) is a musical composition written by the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt. The piece was completed in 1976...

classical music pieces are called ostinatos or simply phrases. Contemporary jazz writers also use riff- or lick-like ostinatos in modal music and Latin jazz...

alternating an ostinato line to fit changing harmonies or keys to enhance the song. Chester's system also taught how to set up an ostinato with one limb...

and 2011. The website was created by Anthony Morelli and Misty Weaver-Ostinato in 2007. Morelli, then writing as an anonymous blogger, originally used...

the school's students. The suite consists of four movements: Jig: Vivace Ostinato: Presto Intermezzo: Andante con moto Finale (The Dargason): Allegro A typical...

It is usually of a serious character and is typically based on a bass-ostinato and written in triple metre. The term passacaglia (Spanish: pasacalle;...

in music as an "ostinato". In both songs, a short ostinato is used repeatedly to form part of the beat of each song and both ostinatos share similar descending...

within each measure from 3/4 to 6/8 and back again). The chant based on an ostinato four-note pattern within the range of a minor third is thought to be of...

counter-melody (secondary melody) and ostinato-variation (variations based on a repeated theme). Polyphony (contrapuntal and ostinato variation) is common in African...

Gozzi Jordan Randall Smith Bass theme E♭ major 12 - 43 Bass theme Theme A Ostinato theme Theme X Theme Variation a 3 44 - 59 Elaboration on bass theme Variation...

between notes and the use of tritones, as well as irregular time signatures. Ostinato is used to create suspense in Halloween music, with a famous example being...

Lübeck (where he may have studied Buxtehude's ostinato works). The first half of the passacaglia's ostinato, which also serves as the fugue's main subject...

progressive notions of funk, jazz, and rock. The tracks on Mwandishi include "Ostinato," the time signature of which is 15/8, "You'll Know When You Get There...

song. In addition, pedal tones (repeated or sustained single notes), ostinatos, and bass riffs are also used as bass lines. While most electric bass...

securing a pardon for his wife, and although assumed dead, survives. 34 9 "Ostinato in White" Allan Arkush Bryan Q. Miller July 31, 2015 (2015-07-31) 1.00...

fifth in the ostinato) more freedom than he would in an improvisation tied to a changing accompaniment. He takes advantage of the ostinato as a unifying...

for nearly the entirety of the runtime, switching from a bass ostinato to a harmony ostinato midway through the piece. The song was featured in the soundtrack...

piano. New techniques and rhythms were invented for the piano, including ostinato for boogie-woogie, and Shearing voicing. George Gershwin's Rhapsody in...

stages - some tools are focused only on one stage while others such as Ostinato try to encompass all stages. Packet Assembly is the creation of the packets...

musicians and 25 choral performers, with emphasis placed on sharp brass ostinatos. Beltrami composed the brass section to exchange octaves with the strings...

Jarzombek and Tomas Haake. Bozzio introduced the ostinato in his "Melodic Drumming and the Ostinato" educational DVDs, playing various drum rudiments...

instrumental players used to support a musician's melody and improvised solos. 3. Ostinato comping (jazz) 1. to comp; action of accompanying. con With; used in very...

is in three voices spaced by a span of two measures; it unfolds over an ostinato in the bass which provides the harmonic basis for the piece, implying a...

The Buxtehude-Werke-Verzeichnis ("Buxtehude Works Catalogue", commonly abbreviated to BuxWV) is the catalogue and the numbering system used to identify...

characterized by an incessant bass ostinato on a low F, which continues in a regular pattern throughout. The bass ostinato introduced here also becomes a...

combos. Boogie-woogie style was characterized by a regular bass figure, an ostinato or riff and shifts of level in the left hand, elaborating each chord and...

Bach's manuscript is particularly important, as it includes the three known ostinato works and the famous Prelude and Chaconne in C major, BuxWV 137. Although...

Anyone Else but Me)" The Andrews Sisters 2:17 14. "Andante"   3:38 15. "Elegy Ostinato"   4:11 16. "Dream Baby" Elizabeth Fraser 4:30 Total length: 49:27...

tones; these are generally alternated in a repetitive beat, or played in an ostinato. It was used as an instrument for communication, transferring messages...