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They were there in baroque music.
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They're kind of went out of fashion
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in the classical period and in the romantic period.
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Romantic is too expansive for ostinatos,
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but they come back in here in the impressionist period
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and they're really important in the modernist period.
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So it's a harbinger of things to come in the modernist period.
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All right. Now let's go on just a little bit farther
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where you can hear the ostinato up above,
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and that's a good example of parallel motion,
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all of the chords going up and going down at the same time.
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What's that? Well, it's a classic example of a glissando.