ostinato
Sign in to saveIn music, an ostinato (; , compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch.
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- European classical music
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- Ground bass: Late Renaissance and Baroque
- Late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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- Sub-Saharan African music
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In music, an ostinato (; , compare English obstinate) is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently in the same pitch.
Both ostinatos and ostinati are accepted English plural forms, the latter reflecting the word's Italian etymology.