The effect is of an urgent whisper, an exhilaration in the cross-rhythms and the rhetoric of repeated notes in the bassline, each of which is given specific character and weight.
It worked: Gaspard has been described as a 'triathlon' for a pianist, with finger-breaking effects in the first movement and dizzyingly fast repeated notes in the third.
Continuum features rapidly repeated notes in the upper register until they accelerate into invisibility.
Some conductors pull back here, so that the repeated notes in the high strings sound like head-pounding triumphalism.
The sound was most satisfying in the "Toccata" from Monteverdi's "Orfeo," in which the jubilant trumpet flourishes and quick repeated notes in the trombones managed to come through with majestic grace.
The orchestra often plays menacing repeated notes in shifting tempos and pitches; the effect is more Steve Reich than György Ligeti, to whom Haas is sometimes compared.
A musical interval of eight notes eg: C to C. A sustained or repeated note appearing unchanged in the bass line of a piece of music over which other harmonies move freely.
Produced by El-P (who had Mr. de la Rocha as a guest with his project Run the Jewels), the track pounds away, mostly on one relentlessly repeated note, thickening and eventually bringing in a loud guitar to match the mounting anger.
Favourite clue (of 25 receiving one or more votes) was 'Composer producing repeated note and one below it in sound?' (BIZET), closely followed by 'Wearing amplifiers, including one that's taken off?' (MIMICKED), though it was politely pointed out to me by one competitor that a microphone is not an amplifier.
Consequently, we view this effect as a general phenomenon that should apply to repetitive patterned sequences composed of simpler units (i.e., pure tones) as well as sequences in which the repeated note is embedded inside the stimulus (e.g., G 3-E3-B3-B3-C3).
