He won't let you in unless you knock the ostinato rhythm from the Mars movement of Holst's The Planets suite.
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Ostinato
//ɒstɪˈnɑtoʊ//
Synonyms for "ostinato"
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12 translations across 10 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- ostinato noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 固定音型 noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
- 頑固音型 /顽固音型 noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
Esperanto
1 entries- ostinato noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
Estonian
1 entries- ostinato noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
Finnish
1 entries- ostinato noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
German
1 entries- Ostinato noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
Macedonian
1 entries- остина́то noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
Russian
1 entries- остина́то noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ostinȃto noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
- остина̑то noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
Spanish
1 entries- ostinato noun (music: figure that is repeated over and over)
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The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano.
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