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Sorry, just for clarification...
So if someone created a musical piece by using Windows Media Player and setting repeat = on. Now a 5 seconds long .wav file is repeated forever. He records it, and this recording results in a 3 minute long musical piece that is nothing but a repeated .wav file.
Now, are these things are true?
1) There is (at least) one structural element in this musical piece. It's a repeated loop. The original 5 seonds .wav file already qualifies as a loop, although it has yet to be repeated. By repeating, the loop becomes a repeated loop. This repeated loop would be called an ostinato.
2) Every musical piece has a form. One could argue that in this case the form consists just of the ostinato. But "ostinato" ist still not the name of the form here, because we assume that we want to continue using the word ostinato for the structural element when the music piece finally gets some intro, ending and some variation inbetween.
That is my interpretation.
So if someone created a musical piece by using Windows Media Player and setting repeat = on. Now a 5 seconds long .wav file is repeated forever. He records it, and this recording results in a 3 minute long musical piece that is nothing but a repeated .wav file.
Now, are these things are true?
1) There is (at least) one structural element in this musical piece. It's a repeated loop. The original 5 seonds .wav file already qualifies as a loop, although it has yet to be repeated. By repeating, the loop becomes a repeated loop. This repeated loop would be called an ostinato.
2) Every musical piece has a form. One could argue that in this case the form consists just of the ostinato. But "ostinato" ist still not the name of the form here, because we assume that we want to continue using the word ostinato for the structural element when the music piece finally gets some intro, ending and some variation inbetween.
That is my interpretation.