4 December 2017
ostinato
[os-ti-nah-toh; Italian aws-tee-nah-taw]
noun, plural ostinatos. Music.
1. a constantly recurring melodic fragment
Origin of ostinato
Latin
1875-1880; Italian: literally, obstinate < Latin obstinātus obstinate
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Examples from the Web for ostinato
Historical Examples
In my opinion, your Basso ostinato should be written in 3/4 or 6/4 time, but not in 5/4.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Modeste Tchaikovsky
You have made just such a mistake in your otherwise beautiful Basso ostinato.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Modeste Tchaikovsky
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
– Henry David Thoreau
On this day
4 December 1952 – A deadly smog in London caused by soot and sulphur dioxide from factories, cars and home coal-fires. It continues for four days and kills at least 4,000 people.
4 December 1954 – the first franchised Burger King store is opened in Miami, Florida by James McLamore and David Edgerton.
4 December 1961 – the birth control contraceptive pill (‘the pill’) available publicly through the National Health Service.
4 December 1969 – 14 police shoot dead two members of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton and Mary Clark, who were asleep in their apartment. The Black Panther Party was committed to racial equality and rights for African Americans.
4 December 1971 – Montreux Casino in Switzerland burns to the ground, becoming the inspiration for rock’s most identifiable riff, Smoke on the Water. Savvy listeners will hear the song refer to Montreux, the Gambling House, a flare gun and of course, the brilliant, Frank Zappa & the Mothers. Deep Purple was in Montreux, on Lake Geneva, recording their legendary album, Machine Head, in the Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Studio (or ‘truck thing’ as they call it in the song) and penned arguably the greatest riff of all time after the gambling house went up in flames during a Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention concert. The fire began when someone fired a flare gun into the rattan ceiling during the Zappa song, ‘King Kong’. This link is footage of the actual concert that Frank Zappa & the Mothers were playing in the Montreux Casino on the Lake Geneva shoreline when ‘some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground’ causing smoke on the water & fire in the sky … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lpFeopjJhI