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The 89 pages that link to Leitmotif, each with the reason it gives.

• Film scoreRelated: Recurring themes let a score identify characters and ideas without dialogue.

• OperaRelated: Recurring motifs can connect scenes and suggest meanings beyond the words.

• Richard WagnerRelated: Recurring motifs help connect characters, ideas, and events across Wagner’s long dramas.

• Romantic musicRelated: Wagner used recurring motifs to connect characters and ideas across music dramas.

• Giuseppe VerdiRelated: Recurring musical ideas help trace character and dramatic tension in Verdi’s later operas.

• Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyRelated: Recurring themes help connect characters and dramatic situations in his stage works.

• Program musicRelated: Recurring themes can identify figures or ideas as a program unfolds.

• Concept albumRelated: Concept albums use leitmotifs to connect characters or ideas across songs.

• Video game musicRelated: Recurring themes can make characters and locations recognizable across a game’s score.

• Film musicRelated: Recurring themes let a score connect characters and ideas across scenes.

• Richard StraussRelated: Recurring motives help organize Strauss’s densely layered operatic dramas.

• Giacomo PucciniRelated: Recurring themes help bind Puccini’s orchestral writing to characters and dramatic moments.

• GesamtkunstwerkRelated: Recurring themes can connect musical structure with characters and dramatic meaning.

• Alban BergRelated: Recurring motives help unify Berg’s operas and track characters’ psychological worlds.

• Film soundtrackRelated: Recurring themes let a score connect separate scenes and signal changing meanings.

• SoundtrackRelated: Recurring themes can connect scenes and signal meaning across a film.

• The Sleeping BeautyRelated: Recurring musical ideas help distinguish the ballet's supernatural figures and dramatic forces.

• Diegetic soundRelated: A theme can function as diegetic music when a scene gives it an audible source.

• Ennio MorriconeRelated: Morricone often gave characters distinct musical identities that return and change across a film.

• Porgy and BessRelated: Recurring musical themes help connect scenes and give the score dramatic continuity.

• VerismoRelated: Recurring motives can bind verismo’s rapidly changing scenes into a continuous dramatic fabric.

• Modest MussorgskyRelated: Recurring themes help connect characters and ideas across the dramatic span of his operas.

• Rock operaRelated: Recurring themes can identify characters and bind distant songs into one dramatic world.

• Snow White and the Seven DwarfsRelated: Recurring musical themes help connect the film’s characters and dramatic moments.

• Symphonic poemRelated: Recurring themes can make a literary or dramatic subject audible across the work.

• New German SchoolRelated: Wagner’s recurring motifs show how music can connect dramatic ideas across an extended work.

• The Turn of the ScrewRelated: The opera’s musical patterns identify figures and ideas as the story changes.

• Character songRelated: A recurring motif can mark a character’s presence or changing significance within a song.

• Hans ZimmerRelated: Recurring motifs help his scores connect characters and ideas across a film.

• Musical quotationRelated: A quoted theme can carry its established associations into a new work.

• Nino RotaRelated: Recurring melodic identities help explain the memorable character of several Rota scores.

• Rodgers and HammersteinRelated: Recurring musical ideas help bind scenes and emotional arcs in their stage works.

• Song cycleRelated: A leitmotif can bind separate songs through recurring dramatic associations.

• ToscaRelated: Recurring themes help bind the opera’s characters and threats across its acts.

• Tristan und IsoldeRelated: Recurring themes connect characters, desires, and ideas across the opera.

• AidaRelated: Verdi uses recurring themes to connect characters and ideas across the opera.

• Bernard HerrmannRelated: Herrmann often used short, recurring ideas to give characters and psychological states musical identities.

• Max SteinerRelated: Steiner repeatedly attached themes to characters and ideas, helping audiences track them through a film.

• The FirebirdRelated: Recurring themes help identify the Firebird and other forces in the score.

• Giacomo MeyerbeerRelated: Meyerbeer used recurring themes to connect characters and dramatic situations.

• Tone poemRelated: Recurring motifs can identify and transform elements of a tone poem’s subject.

• Der Ring des NibelungenRelated: Wagner’s recurring themes connect characters and ideas across all four dramas.

• The Magic MountainRelated: Recurring images and phrases bind the novel’s philosophical discussions to its characters and setting.

• WozzeckRelated: Recurring musical gestures connect characters and ideas across the opera’s compressed scenes.

• Classical music in popular cultureRelated: Recurring themes help screen stories attach classical sounds to characters and situations.

• Manon LescautRelated: Recurring musical ideas help bind the opera’s episodic scenes and returning passions.

• Nobuo UematsuRelated: Uematsu reuses and transforms themes to connect characters and moments across a game.

• Wagnerian sopranoRelated: Wagner’s recurring motifs make a soprano role part of an interconnected musical drama.

• Incidental musicRelated: Recurring motifs let accompaniment track characters or ideas across a play.

• Joe HisaishiRelated: Hisaishi’s recurring themes give separate scenes and characters musical continuity.