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motivic
[ moh-tiv-ik ]
adjective
- of or relating to a motif.
Example Sentences
Like some of her works on the recent portrait album 鈥淭achitipo,鈥 this one derives momentum from hairpin turns that link together drone-ish states and startling streams of motivic activity.
But before long, Wollschleger鈥檚 piece works a gorgeous changeup by allowing its more striated tones to flower into full motivic passages, beautiful on their own terms even as the overall harmonic world remains somber.
The symphony can come off as an exercise in motivic obsession on the level of Beethoven鈥檚 Fifth, and even has that work鈥檚 style of a soaringly ecstatic finale.
Though there was a greater sense of motivic development in Wiancko鈥檚 10-minute piece than is possible with a film score鈥檚 short cues.
Rogister鈥檚 steering of the music鈥檚 violent weather had me loosening my tie, and his finely attuned management of its mess of motivic gestures and granular details was superb.
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