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		She is also a jazz pianist (here's a plug for her recently released CD '
		Her company Leitmotif (a musical term meaning 'leading motif') founded in 1997, specializes in graphic and web design.
		Leitmotif has delivered projects of varied scope to clients ranging from emerging new artists to established corporate companies.
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	Leitmotif revisted
		Wagner leitmotifs were both a complex form of codification and a way of producing subtle sensations and associations in the listener.
		In another sequence we see the most obsessive use of leitmotif in history: when the detective is alone at Laura’s apartment, every time he sees her portrait, he touches her belongings, he smells her perfume or even when he thinks about her, we hear Laura’s leitmotif.
		Despite the fact that musical leitmotifs intended to describe characters or situations are the most used, we will try to recognise other possibilities and establish a classification of types, links and functions of leitmotifs, beyond classic scoring.
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	leitmotif - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		A frequently recurring bit of melody, usually in opera, associated with a person, thing, or emotion; Leitmotiv is German for “leading theme.” The leitmotif may be heard in the instrumental or the vocal part.
		Note: Leitmotifs are particularly associated with the operas of Richard Wagner.
		leitmotif was Word of the Day on January 23, 2001.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/leitmotif (274 words)

	Musical Forms - Leitmotif
		Its significance for Romantic opera was first appreciated by Weber, and Wagner elevated it to a position of paramount importance as a means of both symphonic development and dramatic allusion.
		Leitmotif was taken up by Wagner's disciples, including Cornelius and Humperdinck, and by other composers.
		Richard Strauss's use derives both from Wagner and from Liszt's technique of thematic metamorphosis.
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	Leitmotif
		A leitmotif (also spelled leitmotiv) is a recurring musical theme, associated within a particular piece of music with a particular person, place or idea.
		Leitmotifs can help to bind a work together into a coherent whole, and also enable the composer to relate a story without the use of words, or to add an extra level to an already present story.
		The Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev made heavy use of leitmotifs in his work Peter and the Wolf, a musical story with narration; in it, each character is represented by a specific instrument in the orchestra, as well as an associated melodic theme.
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	Leitmotif
		The leitmotif of the planned development of the region of Rostock aimed at securing lasting economic growth is one element in the “Regional Agenda”.
		The awareness of customers is increasing regarding the importance of quality foods for good health and managing the countryside in an efficient, environmental way to ensure the health of generations to come.
		The leitmotif "innovative-maritime-environmental" presents itself in a minimum of words of the vision which the region of Rostock is heading for the future.
	www.regionrostock.de /Leitmotif.268.0.html (392 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/leitmotif
		In music drama, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label.
		Such sudden whims, seeming to fly in the face of conventional expectations but really motivated by profound, if unexamined, psychological needs, become a leitmotif of the novel, whose chief concern is whether people can ever claim to know themselves -- or one another -- at all.
		Leitmotif (also spelled leitmotiv) is from German Leitmotiv, "leading motif," from leiten, "to lead" (from Old High German leitan) + Motiv, "motif," from the French.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Leitmotiv, Leitmotif (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leitmotifs also often accompany or announce the appearance of characters, emotions or significant symbols (the treasure of the Nibelungs, the Grail in Parsifal and Lohengrin, the longing for each other of Tristan and Isolde etc.).
		The earliest prototypes of the leitmotif as a literary device with characterizing or structuring function may be seen in the decorative or embellishing epithet (epitheton ornans) in the pre-classical Greek oral tradition.
		In some cases, the borderlines between the leitmotif and the topos were as yet fluid, as topoi were used leitmotifically and, vice versa, leitmotifs often became topical.
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	dredg
		It was not till the ORPH ep was released that it was evident dredg was paving themselves a new path to tread.
		Leitmotif, a melodic passage or phrase associated throughout a musical event with a specific character, situation, or element.
		Once Leitmotif was rereleased to a national level, those whom the album effected most eagerly awaited a new album which didn't come till 3 years after the release of LEITMOTIF.
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		Leitmotif is great evidence of this because all the sounds on this album are done by instruments.
		Although it took the public (myself included) a little while to catch up, Leitmotif helped establish Dredg as a distinctive force in the frequently predictable rock genre, setting the stage for the even greater triumph to come down the pike a few years later in the form of El Cielo.
		Overall, Leitmotif is a pretty dark and often haunting listen, but with more than enough energy and musicianship, not to mention the stunning power of Gavin Hayes's voice, to elevate it above the dull and dreary.
	www.amazon.com /Leitmotif-Dredg/dp/B00005NWLC (2033 words)

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		Dredg's Leitmotif is the most inspired album I have ever heard.
		Leitmotif is the epic tale of an everyman's uplifting journey to find himself.
		Leitmotif is a journey that no one should miss.
	www.amazon.com /leitmotif-dredg/dp/B000050FBM (1312 words)

	leitmotif. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
		-moh-teef) A frequently recurring bit of melody, usually in opera, associated with a person, thing, or emotion; Leitmotiv is German for “leading theme.”; The leitmotif may be heard in the instrumental or the vocal part.
		‡ Leitmotifs are particularly associated with the operas of Richard Wagner.
		‡ Recurring themes or subjects in other forms of art or literature are sometimes also called leitmotifs.
	www.bartleby.com /59/8/leitmotif.html (158 words)

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