leitmotiv

plural leitmotivs · plural leitmotive

1. alternativeAlternative form of leitmotif.

   A further application of the rhymes and repetitions is to be seen in Queneau’s use of leitmotive, whereby his texts are pervaded by objects which, again, serve to indicate the deliberate organisation underlying the surface of the narrative.

   1985, Christopher Shorley, “Theory, practice and beyond”, in Queneau’s Fiction: An Introductory Study, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Form), pages 66–67

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   In the domain of purely instrumental music, to which leitmotive are perfectly adapted in the realization of ‘programme music’, the earliest examples are to be found in the Symphonie Fantastique of Berlioz, where what he terms idée fixe is used in the manner of a ‘leitmotiv’.

   1925, Cyril Winn, “The Music”, in The Master-Singers of Wagner (The Musical Pilgrim), London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, page 10

   While Pentecostalism differs both in doctrine and pneumatology from the Afro-Christian sects, its indigenisation in Jamaica has meant that the leitmotive of black folk belief reinvigorated the movement, which had been largely "de-Africanised" by white Pentecostals, and thus restored many of the perceptions and themes which had been present at the birth of the Pentecostalism in Los Angeles.

   1989, Iain MacRobert, “The New Black-led Churches in Britain”, in Paul Badham, editor, Religion, State, and Society in Modern Britain (Texts and Studies in Religion; 43), Lewiston, N.Y.; […]: Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, pages 126–127