Car dealer in Texas? Where in TX is this? In addition to the terms listed below the English often called a repetitive bass line a "ground bass," or simply a "ground." And if it's 12 bars it may very well be a blues bass!
Aaron J. Rabushka Austin, TX > At 9:33 AM -0400 10/13/08, timothy key price wrote: >>On Oct 12, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Jane Frasier wrote: >> >>> Ostinato >> >> >>Sounds like a car dealership in Texas. >>This thread has not clearly defined the different possible choices: >>ostinato, chaconne or passacaglia. > > The difference between chaconne and passacaglia may have been clear > to 17th and 18th century musicians (or dance instructors!), but they > are almost synonymous in practical terms. > >>Are there any substantive differences in these terms? ie. Chaconne >>and Passacaglia are harmonic patterns repeated endlessly, > > They are BOTH harmonic patterns and ground basses, and this goes back > will into the 16th century. In fact they were notated as ground > basses, and the bass itself implies a harmonic pattern. Monteverdi > often used a 4-note bass pattern: A, G, F, E, repeated over and > over. But some of Purcell's ground basses are quite extended and can > indeed be thought of as melodies, but they are still ground basses > even though more melodic. The 8-note ground bass in the Pachelbel > Kanon is another good example. > >>and Onstinato is a repeated melody upon which counter melodies may be >> placed? > > Not necessarily a melody, no. In fact much less likely to be a > melody than a rhythmic pattern that is repeated. In the hands of > both Sibelius and Stravinsky that's exactly what it is, with no real > hint of a melody at all. And in the Orff Schulwerk movement > establishing continuing ostinati is a standard orchestrational > method, once again not melodies at all, but repeated rhythmic > patterns. > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > of jazz musicians. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
