What is a leitmotive?

a. The use of striking chord shifts, musical repetition, controlled dissonance,and abrupt textural changes to highlight the meaning of the text

b. A musical motive that symbolizes a character of dramatic entity.
c. An operatic passage largely given in recitative and often leading to an aria orduet.
d. A group of musicians that supported the outlook of Wagner and Liszt.

b

Art & Culture

You might also like to view...

Etruscan tombs were mounded partially above and below ground in a form known as a(n)

a) tumulus. b) bucchero. c) insula. d) cella.

Art & Culture

A compositional technique where the composer states a musical theme and then restates this theme over and over, elaborating on or varying the theme each time is called theme and variations.

a. true b. false

Art & Culture