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Ground bass or basso ostinato (obstinate bass) is a type of variation form in which a bass line, or harmonic pattern (see Chaconne; also common in Elizabethan England as Grounde) is repeated as the basis of a piece underneath variations. [9]
Four Early Piano Pieces: Basso Ostinato (1941) Due capricci (1947) Invention (1948) Musica ricercata (1951–53) Chromatische Phantasie (1956) Trois Bagatelles, for David Tudor (1961) Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes (1985) Études pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes (1988–94) L'arrache-coeur (1994) Études pour piano, Book 3, four etudes ...
The tresillo pattern is the rhythmic basis of the ostinato bass tumbao in Cuban son-based musics, such as son montuno, mambo, salsa, and Latin jazz. [2] [3] Tresillo-based tumbao from "Alza los pies Congo", by Septeto Habanero (1925). Play ⓘ Often the last note of the measure is held over the downbeat of the next measure.
An important variant of this, much used in 17th-century British music and in the Passacaglia and Chaconne, was that of the ground bass—a repeating bass theme or basso ostinato over and around which the rest of the structure unfolds, often, but not always, spinning polyphonic or contrapuntal threads, or improvising divisions and descants.
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The piece begins in A minor and clearly uses the cadence pattern as a basso ostinato, resulting in Amin – Emin – Fmaj – E7. [6] This work was first published in the Eighth Book of Madrigals (1638). [7] The progression resembles the first four measures of the 15th century Passamezzo antico; i – ♭ VII – i – V.
basso continuo Continuous bass, i.e. a bass accompaniment part played continuously throughout a piece by a chordal instrument (pipe organ, harpischord, lute, etc.), often with a bass instrument, to give harmonic structure; used especially in the Baroque period battement (Fr.)
“Basso ostinato” for two lutes; Suite for flute and lute; Suite for two theremins; Cycle of pieces for four theremins; Concert for organ and harpsichord; Concert for three organs, wind and a bird; Ave Maria for soprano, cello and piano “Beautiful songs” for soprano and chamber ensemble; Adagio and Foxtrot for eight cellos and piano