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basso ostinato

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basso ostinato

In music, a bass part in a composition continually tracing the same melodic outline.



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Finnegan is right to acknowledge the vastness of the problems a young nation like Mozambique inherited from its colonial masters, and one would surely rather have his sympathetic account than the type of commentary about Africa one encounters in American newsmagazines these days, with its basso ostinato of complacent superiority.
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique by Cooper, Rand Richards / Commonweal
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