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leitmotivIn music, a melodic idea associated with a character or an important dramatic element. It is associated particularly with the operas of Richard Wagner, most of which rely on a dense web of associative leitmotifs. Most composers after Wagner (and some of his immediate predecessors) continued to use this musico-dramatic principle, but few as rigorously as he did. leitmotif, leitmotiv 1. Music a recurring short melodic phrase or theme used, esp in Wagnerian music dramas, to suggest a character, thing, etc. 2. an often repeated word, phrase, image, or theme in a literary work How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The most pervasive option to manage such change has thus far been found in the leitmotiv of providing better care more efficiently through sweeping quality improvements. The centrality of the utilitas rei publicae and the common good was also the Leitmotiv in the discourses of those who in later medieval French history are known as the reformateurs, officers, delegates in representative assemblies, and scholars who strove for social reform. Martin Luther King's leitmotiv of mountains that stirred national crowds away from their "swingin' " toward less explicitly violent forms of social action. |
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