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Meanings of musical motif in English

Russian
мотив
Portuguese
motivo
Spanish
motivo
Catalan
figura rítmica
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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.

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        мотив
        Usage of musical motif in English
        1
        The musical motif and the two geese-
        The Goose Man
        2
        The musical motifs accompany the text.
        A Mother's List of Books for Children
        3
        The first 10 minutes of Edward Scissorhands are a perfect capsule delivering the film's visual concerns, its musical motifs and its comic style.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Four forests in England are to perform a "living" symphony when their eco-systems conduct thousands of musical motifs in response to the weather.
        BBC
        5
        "A musical motif?" murmured Jason Philip, to whom the very term music conveyed the idea of something unpleasant.
        The Goose Man
        6
        "I have just been trying to think what meaning this group may have," continued Herr Carovius, "there is undeniably a musical motif in it."
        The Goose Man
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        motivo