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Richard Grayson is considered by many to be the best non-jazz improviser alive. You can check many videos of improvised performances here http://www.youtube.com/user/improvelectronic. He accepts any requests from the audience to take either an original theme or a piece by a composer and play it in a period style or int the manner of another composer; for example "Rite of Spring" in the style of Mozart >1 point
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You could think of it like as a motif, such as the "and-two-and-one" rhythmic motif from Beethoven's 5th.1 point
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stretto probably, in that case.1 point
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Actually I've never noticed this technique in classical music, although there is something called a Coda, which is a sort of short recap, or punctuation at the end. But for jazz and pop music, these riffs as you call them are sometimes called a vamp, or just repeat and fade, if this is the case. One example that comes to mind is "King of Pain" by the Police.1 point
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ostinato. music on which the technique is based can be called a passacaglia or chaconne depending on the role of the ostinato and other things. if other parts copy the same figure at a different beat or pace and each part plays repetitively it's called a canon.1 point
