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Canto Ostinato ("Obstinate Song" (as ostinato)) is a musical composition written by the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt. The piece was completed in 1976 and performed for the first time in 1979 and is by far his most popular and most performed work.
Bel canto vocal music also frequently uses ossia, also called oppure, passages to illustrate a more embellished version of the vocal line. [ 1 ] On the other hand, an ossia marking does not always indicate a change in difficulty; the piano solo music of Franz Liszt is typically full of alternative passages, often no easier or more difficult ...
The music from Miles Davis's modal period (c.1958–1963) was based on improvising songs with a small number of chords. The jazz standard "So What" uses a vamp in the two-note "Sooooo what?" figure, regularly played by the piano and the trumpet throughout. Jazz scholar Barry Kernfeld calls this music vamp music. [full citation needed]
Here it is usually a faster, brasher, semi-improvised instrumental section, sometimes with a repetitive vocal refrain. Finally, the term montuno is also used for a piano guajeo, [1] the ostinato figure accompanying the montuno section, when it describes a repeated syncopated piano vamp, often with chromatic root movement. [2]
In a singing style. In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.)
A guajeo (Anglicized pronunciation: wa-hey-yo) is a typical Cuban ostinato melody, most often consisting of arpeggiated chords in syncopated patterns. Some musicians only use the term guajeo for ostinato patterns played specifically by a tres, piano, an instrument of the violin family, or saxophones.
The Fiddlers (Pelimannit) (1952/1972) (originally for piano) Suite for Strings (1952) Divertimento (1953) An Epitaph for Béla Bartók (1955/1986) Canto I (1960) Finnisch, heute (Finnish, Today) (1970) Canto III: A Portrait of the Artist at a Certain Moment (1972) Three Meditations for Orchestra (1973) (extracted from Lapsimessu)
Mili is a Japanese indie music group founded in August 2012, consisting of Cassie Wei, Yamato Kasai, Yukihito Mitomo, Shoto Yoshida, and Ao Fujimori. Mili covers electronic classical, contemporary classical, and post-classical genres of music [2] in Japanese, English, Chinese, and French.