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motivic, a. Mus.|ˈməʊtɪvɪk| [f. motive n. + -ic.] Of or pertaining to a musical motive or motives. Also Comb. So moˈtivically adv.
1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era vii. 67 The thematic connection of the introductory Andante with the Allegro ma non troppo, a motivic ‘safeguard’ that one will not as yet find so clearly stressed in the Classics. Ibid. xi. 144 He [sc. Liszt] also feels doubly strongly the need for grappling the parts of the whole together motivically. 1957E. T. Cone in N. Frye Sound & Poetry 1. 4 The motivic shapes..of the music. 1959Listener 16 July 114/1 These processes are not entirely explained by either motivic-contrapuntal or expansive-polyphonic methods. 1961Times 13 Oct. 18/6 Webern's instrumentation of the Ricercare is not..so cannibalistic as a single hearing might lead one to suppose. A letter which he wrote..shows that his principal aim..was with its motivic coherence. 1964Listener 13 Aug. 250/2 Erwartung is composed without proper themes, without continuity of motivic work, [etc.]. 1970Daily Tel. 19 Nov. 14/5 A wealth of further motivic events in these two slowish movements. |