ostinato in English

noun
1
a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.
He exploits rock idioms, such as rapidly repeated chords, ostinato bass lines and syncopated rhythms, but with little variation of content.

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1. Its rhythmic sound is used as ostinato in musical accompaniments.

2. The Accompaniment is an ostinato that sticks to the memory like a burr and becomes hypnotic

3. From the Cambridge English Corpus One of the most common forms of polyrhythm in Boogie-woogie is the playing of quarter-note triplets against a shuffle or 12/8 ostinato in the bass

4. The Bitonal piano part is built on two ostinato figures: staccato eighth-note chords that become simply staccato eighth notes in the left hand, depicting the grasshopper; and a busy sixteenth-note figure in the right hand that pictures the ceaseless work of the ant …