Canto Ostinato

Canto Ostinato is a composition by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt, first written in 1976. The work employs a minimalist, repetitive language with slow harmonic transformations and an open, modular structure that allows for variable performance durations and instrumentation, and it occupies a central place in ten Holt's late‑20th‑century output and in the development of Dutch contemporary minimalism.