Jane: Do you actually mean a 12-bar melody, or a 12-bar harmonic
pattern? If the latter, you're probably taking about a 12-bar blues.
Both ground bass and passacaglia (and chacone, for that matter) are
repeated basses, not melodies, and the invented melodies over them
were a favorite in 17th century music, especially in the
2-treble-parts pieces of Monteverdi and Purcell.
John
At 5:20 PM -0400 10/12/08, Adam Golding wrote:
Ground bass?
ostinato?
2008/10/12 Eric Dannewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Passcaglia perhaps?
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jane Frasier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I haven't studied music seriously in many many years and my memory is
> terrible. I am writing program notes for a piece I wrote years ago and it
> has a 12 bar melody that repeats over and over again behind other musical
> lines. I can't think of what that is called. Help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jane
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