Crossword-Solution: OSTINATO 8 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

There is the continuous shake, handed on from instrument to instrument, the slashing figure of the upper strings, the kind of basso ostinato, conventionally indicating the galloping of horses, and the chief melody, a mere bugle-call, altered by a change of rhythm into a thing of superb strength.

Over a slow elemental kind of _basso ostinato_ there appear first the dramatic motto and then other portions of preceding themes, as if struggling to come to the light.

Tschaikowski employed it almost throughout an entire movement, the "Pizzicato Ostinato" in his Fourth Symphony.

The third movement of his Symphony--the Scherzo ‘pizzicato ostinato’--is a masterly invention, which stands alone in musical literature.

Gli atti, i costumi, e le parole, e ’l guardo; M’assale Amore con sì possente foco Ch’i’ ardo tutta, e par, ch’ ogn’ altro affetto Da questo sol sia superato, e vinto: Ma se poi penso all’ ostinato amore, Ch’ ei porta ad altra donna, e che per lei Di me non cura, e sprezza (il vo’ pur dire) La mia famosa, e da mill’ alme, e mille Inchinata beltà, bramata grazia; L’odio così, così l’aborro, e schivo, Che impossibil mi par, ch’unqua per lui Mi s’accendesse al cor siamma amorosa.