ostinatiIn fact there are no webs, fewostinatiand no accumulations in natural language, although such objects may be contrived by composers.From theCambridge English CorpusThere areostinatithat hang in the air, insubstantial as cigar-smoke; figures that scurry out of earshot like mice.From theCambridge English CorpusMomentous pedal points and ominousostinatitell the audience they are about to embark on a vast journey.From theCambridge English CorpusEvent generators are used to represent the common structures of the musical vocabulary such as chords,ostinati, or compositional algorithms.From theCambridge English CorpusThe teacher and trainee teacher added drones and melodicostinatifrom a keyboard and a computer.From theCambridge English CorpusCascadingostinatiand clarion brass summonses yield to shimmering landscapes of low woodwind and strings, illuminated by celeste and glockenspiel.From theCambridge English CorpusAfter a short introduction from the solo violin the movement is dominated by material built on semiquaver runs andostinati.From theCambridge English CorpusA style of club music established c. 1985 incorporating the heavy use of computer sequencers and samplers to process and remix rhythmic patterns andostinati.From theCambridge English CorpusThis is followed by the staggered entries of grouped instruments playing separate rhythmic lines building up the texture into layeredostinatipatterns.From theCambridge English CorpusProcess-like event generators such asostinatialso provide start stop methods for their repeated performance.From theCambridge English CorpusThe second 'study' was far more engaging, with jazzy syncopation, greater variety of texture and use of drones as well asostinati.From theCambridge English CorpusTheseostinatican be varied, or embellished, but otherwise provide modal support.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This movement also includes many more key changes and expands the machine-likeostinatifrom the first version.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The work also contains passages where severalostinaticlash against one another.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Those imagesstylized fanfares, march rhythms,ostinati, folkloric themes and pastoral episodescould easily be considered models of socialist realism.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/ostinati##
