music-glossary: motive

 
 1.207 motive
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 ES: motivo, I: inciso, F: motif, incise, D: Motiv, NL: motief, DK:
 motiv, S: motiv, FI: teema, sävelaihe.
 
    The briefest intelligible and self-contained fragment of a musical
 theme or subject.
 
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