motivic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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But before long, Wollschleger’s piece works a gorgeous changeup by allowing its more striated tones to flower into full motivic passages, beautiful on their own terms even as the overall harmonic world remains somber.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
Rogister’s steering of the music’s violent weather had me loosening my tie, and his finely attuned management of its mess of motivic gestures and granular details was superb.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2022
Musson writes fine folk-lament themes, such as the haunting White Ribbon, while stuttery postboppers such as I'm Sure This Wasn't the Plan pack in more motivic twists than seem possible.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2011
In Voevodsky’s motivic homotopy theory, familiar classical geometry was replaced by homotopy theory — a branch of topology in which a line may shrink all the way down to a point.
From Nature
Glass generally is lumped with Composers Steve Reich and Terry Riley in the minimalist camp because of his simple melodies and his dependence on repetition instead of traditional motivic development.
From Time Magazine Archive
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