leitmotiv

• “While Wagner never used the word leitmotiv to describe his own operas, it is a clearly discernible technique in his music which has influenced many other composers.”

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• “One little group of notes (l) I have seen described as a leitmotiv; and if it is one, I should like to know what it stands for.”

  Richard Wagner

• “One little group of notes (_l_) I have seen described as a leitmotiv; and if it is one, I should like to know what it stands for.”

  Richard Wagner Composer of Operas

• “To give order to this new concept of opera, Wagner invented the leitmotiv, which is a relatively short melodic idea that represents a certain character, thing, or idea.”

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• “We prefer to make it, if you will, the leitmotiv which is to accompany all our explanations.”

  Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

• “The paradox represented by San Diego reappears throughout this study in the form of a kind of leitmotiv, indicating that the question of whether immigration can or should be brought to a stop or whether attention should be concentrated on getting the best out of those who have arrived and those who will come later, is crucial for California.”

  PD Line

• “The propeller design consistently applied to many elements of the cars (such as the Aeroblade wheels) since 2000, was up for refreshment though: And in aviation the propeller engine was succeeded by the turbine engine so Spyker adopted the turbine as its "leitmotiv" for the Spyker C8 Aileron.”

  Jalopnik

• “Raven's feelings are those of the dead lover in The Unquiet Grave, the song that is the novel's leitmotiv and the source of its original title, "A Twelvemonth and a Day.”

  Fictionaut: do you ever read writing?

• “This has to be repeated as a leitmotiv all the time by those who believe in Trurh and in government's dishonesty.”

  To Those Afraid of Asking Questions about 9/11

• “The difference between a free society and a dominated one is in the percentage of property the state lays its hands on ... the predatory impulse finds expression in the Jacob-Esau inheritance swindle, and the use of fraud or force to acquire property without laboring for it is the leitmotiv of the social saga.”

  Grey and Drizzling in America

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