Quick Links This Day in Music History Music Education @ DataDragon.com Music Education Forums Maintain Your Forum Information Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best Sudoku (take a break for a puzzle!) Topic: ostinato From the Music Questions forum. Post a reply or begin a new topic. View other threads or jump to a different forum. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web datadragon.com Author Topic:   ostinato sirah Registered User Registered: 8/30/2004 posted: 8/30/2004 at 11:31:55 AM ET what does ostinato mean? sirah Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 170.224.224.x posted: 8/30/2004 at 1:06:23 PM ET An Italian word meaning 'persistent'. In music it means a continuous repeating of a tone theme normally in bass. This is called a bass ostinato. Many composition forms, including chaconne and passacaglia, are based on ostinato technique. Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked. Please contact us with any concerns you might have.

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