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...

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

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

(1967, revised 1970) Concerto Ostinato, for violoncello and orchestra (1969) Rapsodia per Orchestra (1971) Concerto Ostinato, for GX1 and orchestra (1974)...

rhythmically based on Cuban popular dance music, with a rhythm section employing ostinato patterns or a clave, and Afro-Brazilian jazz, which includes samba and...

(1962) and Charade (1963), and played the piano part of the guitar-piano ostinato in Mancini's Peter Gunn title theme. With Elmer Bernstein, he performed...

modernist elements such as octatonic and whole-tone scales, polyrhythmic ostinato figures, and dissonant counterpoint. Murchinson points out the influence...