Wikipedia: Motif (Music) | "In music, a motif or motive (pronunciation) (help·info) is a short musical idea,[1] a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition"
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Jazz Improvisation: Starting Out with Motivic Development (DVD) | "In this master class DVD, Berklee professor and saxophonist Ed Tomassi
shows you how to build compelling improvisations out of just a few notes"
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Motivic Development & Saturation
| Bach , The Baroque & Beyond | "Recognizing the motive as the basis for all composition, baroque theorists devised a system, known as loci topici, in which the various affetti (sadness, joy, passion, etc.) were associated with specific musical motives"
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TalkBass.com | Motivic Develeopment
| The Elements of Form
Motivic development has primary importance in creating satisfying
improvisations and compositions. In order to support this postulation,
we need talk about form. Any creative work (be it music, architecture,
or poetry) has a form or structure. This form is the product of three
fundamental elements:
1. Repetition
2. Contrast
3. Development
The Art Of Motivic Through-Composition | 01 - 02 | ThePianist.com
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Motif - Music | absoluteastronomy.com
| Very thorough introduction to music motifs and their use in melodic development |
Wapedia | Motif
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Guidelines For Composing - Dr
Trevor Pearce is a composer and lecturer in composition at the Sydney
Conservatorium
Pre-compositional development of ideas | This section highlights the importance of having an underlying
compositional idea and shows the following steps involved in
the compositional process.
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