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Pronunciation: [lˈe͡ɪtmətˌɪf] (IPA)

A leitmotif is a recurring theme or idea in a piece of literature, music or art. There are many synonyms for leitmotif, such as a guiding principle, a motif, a theme, a central idea, a recurrent idea, a fundamental element, or a dominant feature. These terms can be used interchangeably, depending on the context and the medium being described. For instance, a guiding principle can refer to a recurring theme in a philosophical essay, while a dominant feature can describe a repeated visual element in a painting or sculpture. Regardless of the synonym used, all these terms capture the essential meaning of a leitmotif.
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Usage examples for Leitmotif

His canvases were gone and from them his new leitmotif that was maturing beyond Patpong whores in Bangkok to something more thoughtful and original.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
"More work for the undertaker" should be the leitmotif of the evening's fun.
"Perfect Behavior A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises"
Donald Ogden Stewart
One knows that for several years the young French school has been making efforts to deliver our music from German models, to create a language of recitative that shall belong to France and that the leitmotif will not overwhelm; a more exact and less heavy language, which in expressing the freedom of modern thought will not have to seek the help of the classical or Wagnerian forms.
"Musicians of To-Day"
Romain Rolland Commentator: Claude Landi

Famous quotes with Leitmotif

  • A culture is no better than its woods,” Auden writes. Fortunately for him, a book of poetry can be better than its poems. Two-thirds of is non-Euclidean needlepoint, a man sitting on a chaise longue juggling four cups, four saucers, four sugar lumps, and the round-square: this is what great and good poets do when they don’t even bother to write great and good poems, now that they’ve learned that—it’s Auden’s leitmotif, these days—art is essentially frivolous. But a little of the time Auden is essentially serious, and the rest of the time he’s so witty, intelligent, and individual, so angelically skillful, that one reads with despairing enthusiasm, and enjoys Auden’s most complacently self-indulgent idiosyncrasy almost as one enjoys Sherlock Holmes’s writing Victoria Rex on the wall in bullet holes.
    Randall Jarrell
  • All this will have left you disposed to understand one of our principal Futurist efforts, which consists of abolishing in literature the apparently indissoluble fusion of the two concepts of . This ideological a fusion has reduced all romance to a sort of heroic assault that a bellicose and lyrical male launches against a tower that bristles with enemies, a story which ends when the hero, now beneath starlight, carries the divine Beauty-Woman away to new heights. Novels such as by Victor Hugo or by Flaubert can clarify my point. It is a matter of a dominant leitmotif, already worn out,c of which we would like to disencumber literature and art in general.
    Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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