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and it's interesting
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because it's built on an ostinato bass line
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and it's built on an ostinato bass line that descends,
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and this is important
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because it became a convention for lamentation.
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So this is the bass line for "Dido's Lament" here
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and it just keeps recycling over and over and over again.
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That's the ostinato.
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And then up above that we have the lamentation,
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"When I am laid in earth,
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may my wrongs create no trouble in my breast.
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Remember me, remember me,