Haydn was the first great master of what is called motivic development, in which bits and pieces of music - a few notes, a melodic twist, a rhythmic gesture - become the building blocks for an entire symphony in several movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Often the motivic shape of the music overrides the otherwise clear text-setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Many of Manchicourt's chansons show the complex textures and motivic structure of the Flemish tradition e.g.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

I have tried to preserve the natural rhythm of the Latin text, while still uncovering some type of motivic repetition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introits for Treble Choir] Reference

The title track is growly and raw, but Brötzmann deploys an immense variety of motivic shapes that his power sometimes disguises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paal Nilssen-Love/Peter Brötzmann: Woodcuts] Reference

But they illuminate one another, and they should be called a family of pieces, thanks to their extensive motivic give and take (to be documented in my next book).    From Wordnik.com.  ['Schubert's Last Sonatas': An Exchange] Reference

By contrast, the transitional bars of the B flat sonata upset the magnificent coherence of his movement, whose motivic material seems quite unconnected to the new syncopated, jerky rhythm.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Schubert's Last Sonatas': An Exchange] Reference

As far as I can see, Kinderman and I are not far apart, and his observations about Beethoven's telescoping of the fugue theme in the Meno Allegro are brilliantly perceptive; his sensitivity to motivic structure is, as always, impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beethoven's Triumph'] Reference

Other aspects – repeated notes, homorhythmic textures, rhythmically diminished motivic reworking, and consistent anticipation by the contratenor and discantus of the tenor's melody in one piece, Vostre oeul – bespeak a more modern style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Addressing formal issues, there, one cannot really find fault as C-T uses sonata-allegro form clearly in the 1st movement, while offering both rhythmic and motivic development, perfect ternary in the 2nd and rondo in the finale, all hung together masterfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [A few reviews] Reference

Beethoven took the technique of motivic development even further.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

By philmusic is conscious of form being engendered by the material, motivic development, counterpoint.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewMusicBox] Reference

The way in which the quartet caressed Webern's motivic gestures gave their brevity the solemnity they deserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

In future, singularities at superconformal points should be studied, besides integrability on motivic version of WCF.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

If Kurzweil is right, the toddlers of 2050 will be proving theorems in motivic cohomology before they're out of diapers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gelf Magazine] Reference

It might be chordal ideas, or motivic ideas, or character ideas, colors, timbres, whatever it might be for a particular piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewMusicBox] Reference

Allegro con espressione and the 3rd Scherzo-Allegro were developed by Brahms from an identical "motivic core" which clearly reminds us of Liszt's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

This sense of loss is best appreciated in the second and fourth movements, with their extremely soft dynamics and fragmentary motivic statements.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Grieg's G-Minor Quartet allowed the composer to showcase his agility at interweaving disparate motivic threads to create a tour de force of the string quartet literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

But Barenboim's masterly handling made the motivic material crystal-clear - each of the main protagonists, the lovers Pelleas and Melisande and the jilted Golaud, has his or her own leitmotif.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

The startling beginning, with horns playing in their highest register, continues with a pointillistic motivic development that integrates the virtuoso horn into a percussive orchestral tapestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Slide 53: Composing Unit 2 Criterion 5: Melody The horizontal organisation of the music: the melodic construction (optional) (including any motivic working) and shape and the security of the part-writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

It's also highly derivative, and the bedrock of the music is simple chord progressions underlying repetitive groove-rock jams, with many, many moments of self-indulgent noodling and some flashy bluff based on one or two motivic ideas taken from classical music - certain pieces standing out shamelessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference

"G.I.G." refers to the late, great songwriting team, George and Ira Gershwin, and swings along at an amiable pace, leaving plenty of space for Tarenzi to build an impressive and lengthy solo of motivic invention before Liebman takes over on tenor, combining his own attention to thematic development with the visceral expressionism that's become an ever-present signature.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

2 ( "Quinten") provided charm, perfect intonation, and motivic fun based upon the interval of the fifth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ionarts] Reference

Of harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to 3D TVs new battleground for plasma, LCD display makers] Reference

Some of the dissonance in Clemens’s music arises from his treating motivic transposition rather rigidly, with an apparent unconcern for the tritones – some melodic and others harmonic – that result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

(conservatories that are rigorously classical but are open to accepting students with potential for originality as opposed to simply credentials) that accommodates someone who writes intuitive songs but notates their music and is conscious of form being engendered by the material, motivic development, counterpoint (both in vocal harmonies and instrumental arrangements), instrumentation, and direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewMusicBox] Reference