LEITMOTIF
Leitmotif
A leitmotif is a "short, constantly recurring musical phrase" associated with a particular person, place, or idea. It is closely related to the musical concepts of idée fixe or motto-theme. The term itself is an anglicization of the German Leitmotiv, literally meaning "leading motif", or perhaps more accurately, "guiding motif". A musical motif has been defined as a "short musical idea ... melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic, or all three", a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition: "the smallest structural ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Leitmotif
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leitmotif
Noun
- A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.
- A recurring theme.
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