An ostinato refers to a pattern or motif that keeps repeating throughout a music passage. It is not solely associated to rhythm executed on…
Like a plainchant from liturgical music, a cantus firmus is a pre-existing melody that forms the basis for a polyphonic composition…
It is a geometrical representation of the relationships among the twelve tones of the chromatic system — all the notes in the…
After the appearance of the collection of articles “The Origins of Music” (Wallin, Merker…