Exempel på ostinato

• For example, an infinite ostinato can be expressed in this way, and then used in different contexts that extract only the portion that's actually needed.

• This page also contains workings for a supporting ostinato texture in the strings and marimba.

• The ostinato was played throughout on bass drum by a pupil.

• The piece begins like a round-dance, based on an ostinato of four notes, having a pentatonic - or more precisely tetratonic - character.

• Release from this somatic obsession comes only in the last quatrain, when the ascending chromatic tritone figure disappears altogether from the ostinato.

• They wanted to add a melodic ostinato but ran out of time.

• Within this a number of simultaneous ostinato passages occurred, sometimes independent of each other in everything except phrase length.

• Eventually, all that was left was the original ostinato, again played pianissimo.

• As we might by now expect, the harmonies are derived from a verticalization of the ostinato hexachord.

• The melody in the right hand is carved from the ostinato motive, which creates a sort of heterophony.

• The ostinato is one of many devices of this effect.

• Once we reach the ticking, clattering ostinato (in the film so memorably applied to the expedition ship crunching through pack-ice), things improve tremendously.

• From this wry gesture emerged a tense, enigmatic ostinato figure, dry and mordant.

• Curiously, the inscriptions for the canons and the soggetto ostinato are lacking.

• The lesson ended with round being sung again, this time in three parts over the ostinato.