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Repetitious Vs Ostinato

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This instrumental made me want to fall asleep. I felt bored while listening to this. I wasn’t too thrilled about the selection. It was like watching a movie that was played in the 1960s. While you are waiting for a good scene of the movie and they play this certain tune to make you think something good was about to come up next. Instead, the scene turns out to be a sad part in the movie. The contour of the piece varies as it goes from a low tune to a high tune then back down again. It has many different chords. The musical form was repetitious and ostinato. There were only two different textures that I heard in this piece. At the beginning of the instrumental the texture started off as monophonic. Near the end at 5:22 was a polyphonic texture

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