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

• Motivic developmentCompared with: A leitmotif is defined by its dramatic association; motivic development describes what happens to musical material.

• Song LyricsCompared with: A leitmotif carries recurring meaning through music rather than words.

• 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.

• The Phantom of the OperaNarrower topic: The Phantom’s recurring musical material signals his presence even when he is absent.

• 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.

• Musical nationalismBroader topic: Recurring themes can give a national subject a recognizable musical identity.

• Show tuneRelated: Recurring musical themes can connect individual tunes across a show.

• Theme musicBroader topic: A theme can function as a leitmotif when it signals a particular story element.

• Henry ManciniRelated: Mancini used recurring themes to make screen stories musically recognizable.

• Il trovatoreCompared with: Unlike Wagner’s later systematic use of leitmotifs, Verdi relies here more on set forms and recurring melodies.

• Jules MassenetRelated: Massenet uses recurring themes to connect musical passages with characters and emotions.

• Leoš JanáčekRelated: Janáček’s compact recurring motifs often define characters and dramatic situations.

• Alan MenkenRelated: Recurring themes help Menken’s scores give characters and dramatic ideas musical identities.

• BuddenbrooksRelated: Repeated details, including the family’s teeth and physical traits, connect private decline to inherited patterns.

• Carl Maria von WeberRelated: Weber used recurring orchestral ideas to connect characters and supernatural forces.

• Danny ElfmanRelated: Elfman uses recurring themes to give films musical identities and track dramatic changes.

• James HornerRelated: Horner used recurring themes to connect characters and dramatic ideas across a film.

• Jerry GoldsmithRelated: Recurring themes let Goldsmith connect characters and ideas across a film’s changing scenes.

• Peter and the WolfRelated: Distinctive recurring themes identify characters throughout the tale.

• Franz LehárRelated: Lehár used recurring musical material to strengthen dramatic continuity in his later works.

• Tool (band)Related: Recurring musical figures help bind long Tool compositions into coherent forms.

• Die Meistersinger von NürnbergRelated: Recurring themes connect the opera’s musical ideas across its expansive score.

• Georges DelerueRelated: Recurring melodic ideas help explain how Delerue’s tunes can carry emotion across scenes.

• Hans HotterRelated: Wotan’s musical associations recur around Hotter’s character throughout the Ring cycle.

• History of operaRelated: Wagner used recurring themes to connect musical and dramatic events across long operas.

• Jeremy SouleRelated: Recurring themes help give his game worlds musical continuity.

• Léo DelibesRelated: Recurring themes help bind Delibes’s theatrical scenes, though his method is less systematic than Wagner’s.

• Music of Star WarsNarrower topic: Williams uses recurring themes to give characters and ideas recognizable musical identities.

• Music of the Final Fantasy seriesNarrower topic: Final Fantasy scores often transform recurring themes to connect characters and scenes.

• Music of the James Bond seriesNarrower topic: Recurring motifs let Bond scores signal characters and situations across a film.

• Music of The Lord of the Rings film seriesNarrower topic: Shore uses recurring themes to identify Middle-earth’s peoples and ideas as the story unfolds.