ostinato

• Audiophiles listening to this disc will delight in the musical characteristics of Aaron Copland that make his music desirable to them: clear textures, broad lyricism, ostinato, syncopated rhythms and fanfares. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
• Audiophiles listening to this disc will delight in the musical characteristics of Aaron Copland that make his music desirable to them: clear textures, broad lyricism, repeated musical phrases (ostinato), syncopated rhythms and fanfares. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
• Right off the bat we hear a psuedo-classical cello / bass ostinato (a repeated musical phrase) with a distinct pulsing synchopated rhythm. —  ShoutWire.com
• These passages, intoned in monologue over a descending synthesizer ostinato, are interspersed with more recently-penned refrains outlining Waters 'reaction to United States and United Kingdom involvement in the Iraq War. —  Mininova
• Over Debussy’s rain-ostinato, outrageously beautiful melodies begin to emerge and flower, but they do not dominate; they don’t become annoying apotheoses; rainy days don’t make for good apotheoses anyway… the rain speaks last, and most profoundly … The person in the library eventually gets up, stretches, heads back to world and friends, stuffing cards books pens into bag, and you know nothing more about them.

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