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A riff is an example of ostinato, a short, repeated musical phrase.
Riff, RIFF, The 'Riff, or Riffs may also refer to:
Acronyms
Film Festivals
- Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland
- Riga International Film Festival, Latvia
- Riverside International Film Festival, California, U.S.
- Rome Independent Film Festival, Italy
Other acronyms
- Rajasthan International Folk Festival, a music and arts festival in Jodhpur, India
- Resource Interchange File Format, a file container format for storing data
Fictional characters
- Riff (dinosaur), on Barney & Friends, a supporting character from 2006 to 2018.
- Riff, a character in Allegra’s Window
- Riff (Sluggy Freelance)
- Riff, the leader of the Jets in West Side Story
- Riff Randle, protagonist of the Ramones film Rock 'n' Roll High School
- The Riffs, a gang in the film The Warriors
Music
- Riff (American band), a 1980s/1990s rhythm and blues vocal group
- Riff (Argentine band) a hard rock band
- Riffs (Status Quo album), 2003
- Riffs (Jimmy Lyons album)
- "The Riff" (Lordi song), 2013
- The Riffs, American band
- "Riff", a song by Sander van Doorn from Supernaturalistic
- "The Riff Song", a musical number from The Desert Song
Other uses
- MSTing or riffing, a form of humorous media commentary
- The Riff, an Australian music video television show
- Riff: Everyday Shooter, a 2007 video game
- WRIF, "The Riff", a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, US
See also
- RIF (disambiguation)
- Rif, a region of Morocco
- Riffian people, a Berber people of the Rif
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