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LEADING MOTIVE

In music, a leading motive is a guiding theme. In the music drama of Wilhelm Wagner, a leading motive is a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play forming a sort of musical label.
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