Definition of "ostinatos" [ostinatos]

• Plural form of ostinato. (noun)

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• "Musically it unfolds far too sedately, with vocal declamation over smoothly contoured orchestral ostinatos, pitched somewhere between recent Philip Glass and the John Adams of The Death of Klinghoffer, as the default musical idiom."
• "As Madame Mao, Kathleen Kim was a ball of fire, hurling out the stratospheric ostinatos of her tantrum aria "I am the wife of Mao Tse-Tung": She's a seducer and killer who will do anything to cement her position."
• "Never one to resort to simple open chord strums, Matthews spryly plucked circular ostinatos and buoyant chordal riffs to power the band's string of memorable hits."