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Definition of Leitmotivs
1. leitmotiv [n] - See also: leitmotiv
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leitmotivs
Literary usage of Leitmotivs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"His style, clear and melodious, remains truly French in its elegance and purity
of lines. Only in the general plan and the employ of leitmotivs are ..."
2. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1902)
"... the daughter of the veldt, of coarse, a martyr in a home of sin and
drunkenness—alcohol and lust furnishing, indeed, the leitmotivs of the whole story. ..."
3. Paris as it is: An Intimate Account of Its People, Its Home Life, and Its by Katharine De Forest (1900)
"... in which the leitmotivs were what he called the students' cries. To this day
I can hear him saying solemnly: "Here are the students coming in the ..."
4. Great Musical Composers: German, French and Italian by George Titus Ferris (1887)
"In the Prologue a special leitmotivs accompanying the words " Horrendum est in
incidere in Manns Dei" signifies the Death, not only of the body, ..."
5. The Musical World (1882)
"... as he did for the Ring; so that the "leitmotivs* " may at once be detected
and committed to memory. An English translation by Herr Ernst von Wolzogen, ..."
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