ostinati
plural ofostinatospecialized
Examplesofostinati
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In fact there are no webs, fewostinatiand no accumulations in natural language, although such objects may be contrived by composers.
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There areostinatithat hang in the air, insubstantial as cigar-smoke; figures that scurry out of earshot like mice.
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Momentous pedal points and ominousostinatitell the audience they are about to embark on a vast journey.
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Event generators are used to represent the common structures of the musical vocabulary such as chords,ostinati, or compositional algorithms.
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The teacher and trainee teacher added drones and melodicostinatifrom a keyboard and a computer.
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Cascadingostinatiand clarion brass summonses yield to shimmering landscapes of low woodwind and strings, illuminated by celeste and glockenspiel.
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After a short introduction from the solo violin the movement is dominated by material built on semiquaver runs andostinati.
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A style of club music established c. 1985 incorporating the heavy use of computer sequencers and samplers to process and remix rhythmic patterns andostinati.
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This is followed by the staggered entries of grouped instruments playing separate rhythmic lines building up the texture into layeredostinatipatterns.
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Process-like event generators such asostinatialso provide start stop methods for their repeated performance.
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The second 'study' was far more engaging, with jazzy syncopation, greater variety of texture and use of drones as well asostinati.
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Theseostinatican be varied, or embellished, but otherwise provide modal support.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This movement also includes many more key changes and expands the machine-likeostinatifrom the first version.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The work also contains passages where severalostinaticlash against one another.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Those imagesstylized fanfares, march rhythms,ostinati, folkloric themes and pastoral episodescould easily be considered models of socialist realism.
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