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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

music, for comic effect; for instance, as the progression is played as an ostinato, sometimes it is used as a vi–IV–I–V (i. e. the "pessimistic" inversion)...

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...

for piano or ensembles of multiple pianos. His most famous work is Canto Ostinato, which he wrote in 1976 and is considered one of the most famous works...

of Corea on this album. Side one "Homecoming" (Corea) – 19:10 Side two "Ostinato" (from "Mikrokosmos for Two Pianos, Four Hands") (Béla Bartók) – 2:37 "The...

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)...

"Main Title and First Victim" The main theme for Jaws, revolving around an ostinato of bass notes, which composer John Williams said were meant to represent...