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A melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas)
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leitmotif
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ashton has other ways of creating a leitmotif to link incidents pertinent to the plot throughout a ballet. ▪ It was a leitmotif of the early It. ▪ Managed competition, rather than a free market in health care, is the leitmotif ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera. 2 A recurring theme.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A leitmotif or leitmotiv 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 spelling leitmotif is an anglicization of the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leading \Lead"ing\, a. Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example. -- Lead"ing*ly , adv. Leading case (Law), a reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas) [syn: leitmotiv ]
Usage examples of leitmotif.
This is the leitmotif of Kantian philosophy: the necessity of the transcendental, the impossibility of every form of immediacy, the exorcism of every vital figure in the apprehension and action of being.
Thus the leitmotif of the whole span of the Hard Left's conduct these past forty months has been a return to that clandestinity that worked so well through the early and mid-1970s.
Thus the leitmotif of the whole span of the Hard Left’s conduct these past forty months has been a return to that clandestinity that worked so well through the early and mid-1970s.
Here the leitmotif was Iranian, with M-and-M leading a now-zombielike Marvin through the rooms of the former "spy nest," pointing out various telex machines and descanting upon their counterrevolutionary functions.
Since midday a certain leitmotif of disease had come jittering in, had half-revealed itself, latent in the music of Cairo's afternoon.
And we also find this same vicariousness to be a characteristic, or, as the musician would put it, a leitmotif of Nature.