Word: ostenato
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this, his only full-fledged opera, Purcell bases his texture on the Venetian School, and more especially on Lully. He exhibits a strong bent to the use of a basso ostenato, basing his melodic line on the structure of his bass part...
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