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Motif (music)

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In music, a motif (also 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". [1]

44 relations: Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Brandenburg Concertos, Cell (music), Claude Debussy, Cyclic mass, Domenico Scarlatti, Donald Erb, Figure (music), Finlandia, Harmony, Hugo Riemann, Idea, Interval (music), Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Joseph Haydn, Leitmotif, Ludwig van Beethoven, Melody, Melody type, Messe de Nostre Dame, Miriam Gideon, Motif (music), Motif (narrative), Motif (visual arts), Motto (disambiguation), Movement (music), Music, Musical composition, Musical cryptogram, Musical development, Ostinato, Oswald Jonas, Phrase (music theory), Rhythm, Salience (neuroscience), Sonata form, String Quartet (Debussy), String Quartet (Ravel), Subject (music), Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven), Theme (narrative), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Anton Webern

Anton Friedrich Wilhelm (von) Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter.

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Bibliothèque de la Pléiade

The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ("Pleiades Library") is a French series of books which was created in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor.

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Brandenburg Concertos

The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1046–1051, original title: Six Concerts à plusieurs instruments)Johann Sebastian Bach's Werke, vol.

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Cell (music)

The 1957 Encyclopédie Laroussequoted in Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1990).

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Cyclic mass

In Renaissance music, the cyclic mass was a setting of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass, in which each of the movements – Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei – shared a common musical theme, commonly a cantus firmus, thus making it a unified whole.

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Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (Naples, 26 October 1685 Madrid, 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.

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Donald Erb

Donald Erb (January 17, 1927 – August 12, 2008) was an American composer best known for large orchestral works such as Concerto for Brass and Orchestra and Ritual Observances.

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Figure (music)

A musical figure or figuration is the shortest idea in music; a short succession of notes, often recurring.

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Finlandia

Finlandia, Op.

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Harmony

In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.

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Hugo Riemann

Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (18 July 1849 – 10 July 1919) was a German music theorist and composer.

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Idea

In philosophy, ideas are usually taken as mental representational images of some object.

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Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.

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Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Jean-Jacques Nattiez (born December 30, 1945, Amiens, France) is a musical semiologist or semiotician and professor of musicology at the Université de Montréal.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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Leitmotif

A leitmotif or leitmotiv is a "short, constantly recurring musical phrase"Kennedy (1987), Leitmotiv associated with a particular person, place, or idea.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Melody

A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Melody type

Melody type or type-melody is a set of melodic formulas, figures, and patterns.

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Messe de Nostre Dame

Messe de Nostre Dame (Mass of Our Lady) is a polyphonic mass composed before 1365 by French poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377).

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Miriam Gideon

Miriam Gideon (October 23, 1906 – June 18, 1996) was an American composer.

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Motif (music)

In music, a motif (also 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 (narrative)

In narrative, a motif is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.

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Motif (visual arts)

In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.

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Motto (disambiguation)

A motto is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization.

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Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, either a song or an instrumental music piece, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating or writing a new song or piece of music.

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Musical cryptogram

A musical cryptogram is a cryptogrammatic sequence of musical notes, a sequence which can be taken to refer to an extra-musical text by some 'logical' relationship, usually between note names and letters.

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Musical development

In classical music, musical development is a process by which a musical idea is communicated in the course of a composition.

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Ostinato

In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.

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Oswald Jonas

Oswald Jonas (January 10, 1897 – March 19, 1978) was a music theorist and musicologist and student of Heinrich Schenker.

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Phrase (music theory)

In music theory, a phrase (φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Salience (neuroscience)

The salience (also called saliency) of an item – be it an object, a person, a pixel, etc.

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Sonata form

Sonata form (also sonata-allegro form or first movement form) is a musical structure consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation.

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String Quartet (Debussy)

Claude Debussy wrote his String Quartet in G minor, L 85, Op.

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String Quartet (Ravel)

Maurice Ravel completed his String Quartet in F major in early April 1903 at the age of 28.

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Subject (music)

In music, a subject is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.

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Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No.

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Theme (narrative)

In contemporary literary studies, a theme is the central topic a text treats.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(music)

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