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There's this chaconne-like cantata BuxWV 92 "Quemadmodum desiderat cervus" -- the Psalm "As the hart desireth the waterbrook" auf Lateinsich -- that has a two-bar basso ostinato that's repeated 64 times.

Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Even at the tail end of the first "B," the part that matches the words "If I can find the sun in your eyes," Young weaves in an amazing embellishment, a two-bar phrase that could be the ­basis for a song in itself, but, more important, perfectly complements the Youmans melody.

Forever Young—A Centennial Tribute 2009

Not only is it 12:36 long, but it also really digs into the repetition-unto-death-and/or-enlightenment thing for which Oneida is apparently known, with an Alan Parsons-y two-bar melody breaking down into a heavy droning pulse after 5 minutes, and frequent noise-punches to the brain and spine before collapsing into binary exhaustion.

Review — Oneida, Rated O (2009; Jagjaguwar) 2009

All Cuban music has that undulating two-bar rhythm, one bar straight, one bar syncopated.

Diddley's Beat Ba-bomps into the 21st Century 2008

But 2½ minutes into the tune, drummer Gene Krupa jolted the ensemble to life with an explosive two-bar break.

When Carnegie Hall Swung 2008

He was a musician of consummate taste -- each funky little two-bar fill he played on piano or organ had a distinct shape -- and played his voice like the precious, responsive instrument it was.

We Can't Stop Loving Him 2007

The new combined two-bar system will settle to a new equilibrium, one intermediate between the cold and hot bar's original temperatures.

Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time Callender, Craig 2006

I would post one of my two-bar creations, but I couldn't work out the recording function.

Neuromixer VDrum: It's a video drum machine! 2005

He switched on a two-bar electric fire and motioned them to chairs.

Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995

We may mention here also the theory of Riemann (Handbuch der Musikgeschichte, I, viii), who holds that plain chant has a regular rhythm based on the accents of the texts and forming two-bar phrases of four accents.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913