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‖ ostinato, a. and n. Mus.|ostiˈnato|
[It., obstinate, persistent.]
A. adj. Recurring, frequently repeated.
B. n. Pl. ostinati, ostinatos. A musical figure which recurs unchanged and at the same pitch. Also transf. Cf. basso ostinato s.v. basso.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 340/2 Ostinato (It.) Lit. obstinate, used in the sense of ‘frequently repeated’, as basso ostinato, a ground-bass. 1928Daily Express 27 Aug. 3/2 It is clear that there are three principal themes, the ostinato on page three obtruding itself against a version of the second theme. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 126 We find the juxtaposition of short lyrical phrases..with ostinatos of extreme and deliberate bareness. 1946G. Abraham in A. L. Bacharach Brit. Music iii. 62 Neuritis..had exaggerated his [sc. Holst's] mannerism of ostinato bass-figures through the ease with which they could be indicated by repeat-signs. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xi. 143 The combination of doloroso and agitato, of cantabile and rhythmic ostinati, is typical. 1959R. Fuller Ruined Boys ii. ix. 131 He became aware of the noises of summer—of insects, larks, leaves—that provide the normally unidentified ostinato that nevertheless enriches the obvious themes of colour, sun and cloud. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 1180/2 In Erwartung..the Way becomes an ostinato figure that marks the beginning of Schoenbergian serialism. 1973E.-J. Bahr Nice Neighbourhood ix. 98 The kids were performing an ostinato of whining. 1974Early Music II. 227 A series of fanfare-like ostinati alternating between the lower two voices. 1975Country Life 2 Oct. 846/1 Mime's forge is equipped with a..mechanical hammer which superimposes its own ostinato on Wagner's music. 1976Gramophone May 1766/3 The only place which sounds like a slip-up to me comes three bars before fig. 139, in the ‘Action rituelle’, where the tam-tam suddenly sticks out of the percussion ostinato of which it forms a part. |