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The use of characteristic, short, recurring motifs in orchestral music can be traced back to the early seventeenth century, such as L'Orfeo by Monteverdi.In French opera of the late eighteenth century (such as the works of Gluck, Grétry and Méhul), "reminiscence motif" can be identified, which may recur at a significant juncture in the plot to establish an association with earlier events.
A motif may be repeated in a pattern or design, often many times, or may just occur once in a work. [ 1 ] A motif may be an element in the iconography of a particular subject or type of subject that is seen in other works, or may form the main subject, as the Master of Animals motif in ancient art typically does.
The flute in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman is a recurrent sound motif that conveys rural and idyllic notions. Another example from modern American literature is the green light found in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Narratives may include multiple motifs of varying types.
The coupling of classical columns was both a recurring motif in French classical architecture and a matter of controversy in structural and aesthetic theory. Quatremère de Quincy described the paired columns as a "fault" and a first step to vice (1788). [ 4 ]
The animal would become a frequently-recurring motif in Matisse's art. [2] [5] While working on Arab Coffeehouse, Matisse essentially promised Russian art collector Ivan Morozov the piece, to go along with a triptych he was also working on. [6] However, Sergei Shchukin, another Russian art collector would instead acquire Arab Coffeehouse.
A melodic motif is a melodic formula, established without reference to intervals. A rhythmic motif is the term designating a characteristic rhythmic formula, an abstraction drawn from the rhythmic values of a melody. A motif thematically associated with a person, place, or idea is called a leitmotif or idée fixe. [7]
The vanishing of certain materials is a recurring motif in conjectural literature, [101] exemplified by the loss of metal in Gaston de Pawlowski's [102] Les Ferropucerons (1912) [nb 9] and Serge-Simon Held's [103] La Mort du fer (1931). Additionally, scientific innovations played a significant role in this imaginative literature.