ostinati Meaning & Definition

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Meaning of ostinati In English

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  • In fact there are no webs, few ostinati and no accumulations in natural language, although such objects may be contrived by composers.

  • There are ostinati that hang in the air, insubstantial as cigar-smoke; figures that scurry out of earshot like mice.

  • Momentous pedal points and ominous ostinati tell the audience they are about to embark on a vast journey.

  • Event generators are used to represent the common structures of the musical vocabulary such as chords, ostinati, or compositional algorithms.

  • The teacher and trainee teacher added drones and melodic ostinati from a keyboard and a computer.

  • Cascading ostinati and clarion brass summonses yield to shimmering landscapes of low woodwind and strings, illuminated by celeste and glockenspiel.

  • After a short introduction from the solo violin the movement is dominated by material built on semiquaver runs and ostinati.

  • A style of club music established c. 1985 incorporating the heavy use of computer sequencers and samplers to process and remix rhythmic patterns and ostinati.

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