NOUN
- a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas)
How To Use leitmotiv In A Sentence
- Logically then, Stauffenberg's moral leitmotiv should be traced back to this spirituality which, for Holderlin, was pietistically tinged. Signandsight.com
- As ever, I wanted some tunes to take away, apart from bits of airs (with a minuet as a slight leitmotiv) of contemporary style.
- The sight is beautifully poetic and expresses the leitmotiv tension between heaven and earth.
- 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
- The constant struggle to make a living in the arts in New Zealand runs like a leitmotiv throughout the book.
- The work abounds in leitmotivs, the most important of which are those relating to Holmes and Watson.
- We should throw off the heavy, Germanic Leitmotiven we've been burdened with all these years, and like characters in any good Baroque opera, adopt the affetto proper to our roles. Intermission.
- The key leitmotiv throughout Richard Hooker's writings is the concept of order.
- 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. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]