On 13 Oct 2008 at 15:36, timothy key price wrote: > In very simplistic terms, is it fair to say that Beethoven's first 4 > notes of his 5th symphony are used as an ostinato? Or is it not > repeated regularly enough? Still not sure how the term is applied or > correctly used and my music dictionary is not much help. > Don't mean to beat this to death.
My answer would be: Beethoven's 5th: No Ravel's Bolero: Yes -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale