MOTIF

Motif

In music, a motif or motive is a short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition: "The motive is the smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity."

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motif

Noun

  1. A recurring or dominant element; a theme.
    See how the artist repeats the scroll motif throughout the work?
  2. A short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work
  3. A decorative figure that is repeated in a design
  4. The physical object or objects repeated at each point of a lattice. Usually atoms or molecules.


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