Background ostinato of the warring House Wren daddies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Head Thread] Reference

Manchicourt sometimes treated the cantus firmus canonically and sometimes as an ostinato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

The jet engines on the suprafoils were revving up, filling the huge chamber with an ostinato thunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cachalot]

Two motets, Circumdederunt me and Si diligis me, are built on a cantus firmus; a few others are built on an ostinato with its own text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Both hands clung to the rail to keep him from tumbling over into the depths, the fingers tapping out a panicked ostinato on the smooth wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]

Because of the technical demands of multi-voice writing, these works contain more direct repetition, sequence and ostinato than his other music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

During these episodes the band just riffs and plays ostinato patterns while the singers compete back and forth, like old-time jazz players "cutting.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato] Reference

Part II has long passages in which the sustained, hammering ostinato -- a small motif repeated over and over again -- becomes grating and uncomfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jazz Night to Remember] Reference

I'll forgive and forget� CHRISTGAU: Musically, it's the same strategy: hooky ostinato riff embellished with a few subtle effects, leading to a soft vocal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The xx: Switching Roles In Song] Reference

His debt to the former is apparent in his borrowing, not only musical material, but also techniques such as soggetto cavato, ostinato, cantus firmus and incipient parody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

With harpsichord in the foreground, the ostinato score of RABID DOGS reminds me of Edwin Astley's music for Patrick McGoohan's DANGER MAN series, only darker and more urgent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-15] Reference

The string writing becomes typically Brucknerian, thickly ostinato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Guarneri del Gesu in exquisite half steps over the tympanic ostinato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The wonderful play on the dominant G as both a center of ostinato gravity -- see Beethoven's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

'The Devil's Triangle', an exercise in dissonant improvisation over a 5/4 ostinato, based on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

Overall, it's a quiet song, with a gentle guitar ostinato that continues for the entire song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moomin Light] Reference

Its recognizable ostinato and popular melodies have made "Sabre Dance" a popular concert band piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

The "Flowers" is particularly noteworthy, especially the muted trumpet end and some ostinato in the piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Would the madmen of the Wing Kong Exchange be as comically truculent minus it's festering synth bass ostinato?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.] Reference

It is rhythmically consistent, the regular ostinato triplet figure of the right hand continuing unabated throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Activities are accompanied by composer Carlo Cialdo Capelli's sweet ostinato overlaid with message-affirming lyrics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stage / News Headlines] Reference

The ostinato deftly moves the song along - Mary-Chapin Carpenter's songs, regardless of how slow they are, always move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moomin Light] Reference

Marsalis played an exploratory, growing meditation on "Winter Wonderland," anchored by brooding left-hand ostinato chords.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

In the fourth section, the flutist twirled and skipped in dancing interplay with the pianist's accelerating ostinato rhythm.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

It starts out with a recognizable motif ostinato with the timpani and strings that can be heard throughout much of the piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Just as the fog began to lift, Mr. Rutner struck up a repetitive figure, on clarinet, in quintuple meter: the ostinato behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

"Like two great cymbals clanging we met head-on," she sang in "In the Beginning," over a rippling, delicate ostinato from yMusic.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Romanze softly scurries over a delectable ostinato; the da capo clearly takes its source from a deep pedal tone in the bass fiddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

By definition, a chaconne generally consists of a repetitive chord progression as well as a basso ostinato, or repeating bass line.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

I was trying to get them to do the end of Kumbaya ostinato with This Little Light of Mine over the top, but it didn't work out so well.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

Right off the bat we hear a psuedo-classical cello / bass ostinato (a repeated musical phrase) with a distinct pulsing synchopated rhythm.    From Wordnik.com.  [ShoutWire.com] Reference

The famous 1838 Arabeske in C drips with nostalgia, set as an ostinato and melody in continuous dialogue in five sections and an epilogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

He accomplishes this in the Piano Quartet by means of a prominent ostinato that unifies many Latvian folkloric melodies throughout the six movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Finale, a spirited, syncopated Bohemian dance, keeps the violas quite busy, along with a series of pizzicato effects and ostinato counterpoint high and low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The G-sharp Minor basks in more oriental harmonies, veils of sound over a ostinato rhythm and cascading arpeggios often reminiscent of the D Minor Concerto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The basso ostinato also perplexed me.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Posted by tony ostinato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimmy Carter Distances Himself From Kucinich On UFOs] Reference