On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Leitmotif. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as tune or melody and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Leitmotif meaning
- A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.
- A recurring theme.
Using Leitmotif
- The main meaning on this page is: A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera. | A recurring theme.
- Useful related words include: leitmotiv, tune, melody, air.
- In the example corpus, leitmotif often appears in combinations such as: the leitmotif, leitmotif of, leitmotif for.
Context around Leitmotif
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 14 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Leitmotif
- In this selection, "leitmotif" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, musical, recurrent, anxious, technique, expressed and necessarily stand out and add context to how "leitmotif" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a musical leitmotif for leia and a musical leitmotif that played. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "leitmotif" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with leitmotif
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Seafood and vegetables are the leitmotif of his cuisine. (9 words)
Several of the characters had a musical leitmotif that played when they appeared. (13 words)
Its leitmotif, expressed both subtly and overtly, is that past and present are one. (14 words)
On 23 July 1851 he wrote down on a loose sheet of paper what was to become the best-known leitmotif in the entire cycle: the theme from the " Ride of the Valkyries " ( Walkürenritt main). (35 words)
The travelling experience through to the mine is provided and manages to evoke a pretty nice sense of exploration –and yes, the troll-leitmotif of the encounters on the road is further emphasized here. (34 words)
I was adopted and grew up set apart from other people because I was a princess." citation mainComposer John Williams created a musical leitmotif for Leia which recurs throughout the Star Wars saga. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Its leitmotif, expressed both subtly and overtly, is that past and present are one.
Seafood and vegetables are the leitmotif of his cuisine.
Despite being the Canadian-born son of a Cuban refugee, Cruz has made unhinged xenophobia the leitmotif of his 2024 Senate campaign.
As I mentioned, there was the initial concept of not using a ‘leitmotif’ necessarily, rather creating a score that is always going forward, and never really resolving or being too familiar.
Like the image of the Angel Zlatan, the lion is a leitmotif in many of his public pronouncements.
As embassies in Tashkent know, regional investment is a recurrent leitmotif for the government.
The anxious leitmotif of popular sentiment, especially in the predominant western part of the country, is “let’s hang on to what we’ve got”.
The travelling experience through to the mine is provided and manages to evoke a pretty nice sense of exploration –and yes, the troll-leitmotif of the encounters on the road is further emphasized here.
Cora Kaplan argues that the "negative and prescriptive assault on female sexuality" is a " leitmotif " of the Rights of Woman.
His favourite animal was the swan, and such was his influence in the German movement that the swan came to serve as the leitmotif for the Jugendstil.
I was adopted and grew up set apart from other people because I was a princess." citation mainComposer John Williams created a musical leitmotif for Leia which recurs throughout the Star Wars saga.
Johnson re-scored the theme when Linda Thorson joined the series, adding a counter melody on trumpet, based on the leitmotif for Tara King from the final Rigg episode "The Forget-Me-Knot".
Music of Parsifal Leitmotifs in Parsifal A leitmotif is a recurring musical theme within a particular piece of music, associated with a particular person, place or idea.
On 23 July 1851 he wrote down on a loose sheet of paper what was to become the best-known leitmotif in the entire cycle: the theme from the " Ride of the Valkyries " ( Walkürenritt main).
Several of the characters had a musical leitmotif that played when they appeared.
The extensive use of leitmotif is one of the defining points of the audio tracks.
This became known as the leitmotif technique (see below), although Wagner himself did not use this word.
Tosca is the most Wagnerian of Puccini's operas, with its frequent use of leitmotif.
Weber was in some ways Wagner 's precursor, using the leitmotif and conceiving the idea of the "total art work" ("Gesamtkunstwerk"), both of which gained Baudelaire's admiration.
Williams, p. 217 This use of Wagnerian leitmotif technique is repeated and developed further in Ivanhoe.
Common combinations with leitmotif
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the leitmotif 7×
- leitmotif of 4×
- leitmotif for 4×
- is leitmotif 2×
- leitmotif in 2×
- musical leitmotif 2×
- leitmotif is 2×
- of leitmotif 2×
- leitmotif technique 2×