| In less capable hands such a flurry of motivic activity can disintegrate into the unintelligible. |
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| The second motivic element announced in these opening bars is a quick upward scale. |
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| Throughout, the saxophonist eschews the obvious, opting for restraint or curiously oblique phrases rather than motivic development. |
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| His symphonic scores revisited the motivic and symphonic aesthetic of the 19th century, a move regarded as retrogressive by modernist critics. |
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| The fugal finale was full of clarity of motivic detail, every part in place, building thrilling momentum. |
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| Each exploits contrast and color while elaborating motivic detail and assiduously building climaxes. |
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| Instead, the melodic phrases owe their unity and continuity to the juxtaposition of short segments with obvious motivic connections. |
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| Almost all the motivic material of the Finale can be traced to these opening measures. |
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| Tools for concrete calculations include algebraic K-theory and motivic cohomology. |
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| His homophony, grounded in pre-twentieth-century melody-with-accompaniment ideals, largely excludes motivic counterpoint. |
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| One wonders how the composer could maintain his high level of inspiration while manipulating every motivic fragment so exhaustively. |
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| And yet the rhythmic and motivic energy of the work clearly point to neoClassical models like Stravinsky or Bartók, as well as Tubin. |
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| The outer movements are both jazzy, with ostinati and motivic development in the first and brighter pizzicato textures and dance-like rhythms in the finale. |
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| Thus Skalkottas, although continuing the motivic development, follows the essential principle of traditional sonata form and resolves the previous harmonic tensions. |
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| And would the listener recognise the deeper significance, in Cantata 105, of the worship of money as a betrayal of Christ without that motivic relationship? |
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| Another nontemporal experiment dealt with motivic abstraction. |
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| The whole intermediate body of these pieces develops the motivic material presented at the beginning, and the initial material is transformed contrapuntally and harmonically. |
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| It is indeed demonically possessed, and its unmitigated persecution of certain motivic fragments demonstrates Beethoven's tendency toward obsession. |
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| Just like in many of Arvo Pärt's realizations, the music's suspension in time effect is stunning, helped by motivic and stylistic similarities in the three movements. |
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| The work ends with a spirited Allegro molto in a lively rhythm, leading the listener first through the meanderings of motivic explorations, and then through the tiny surgings of a humorous theme. |
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| Jeremy Dibble dissects the solo songs and uncovers a remarkable subtlety of motivic interconnection and tonal argument. |
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| I was very aware when I was writing, of keeping the motivic things and bringing them back here and there in different directions. |
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| Nathan James Dearden's Friction depicted struggle too, although his relied on unrelenting motivic development. |
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| Nathan James Dearden's Friction depicted struggle too, though his relied on unrelenting motivic development. |
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| On a literal level, Ysrael's mask and his defacement follow these motivic patterns. |
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| The songlike melody, the unity of the motivic material, and the balanced harmony of solemn and lyrical passages show how intensively Haydn concerned himself with the genre. |
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| Than follows the first theme, stated first by the violins, than by the clarinet, one of most memorable melodies, rich enough to provide motivic elements for the entire work. |
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| This motivic development is not only to be used by the soloist, but as well by the rhythm section comping, by the improviser in the heart of the group, and through collective improvisation. |
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| Beethoven's relationship to his theme, like Leporello's to his master, is critical but faithful, inasmuch as he thoroughly exploits its motivic components. |
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| After the lively fugue has run its course, Elgar brings back all the melodic and motivic ideas heard earlier, continuing in his masterful way to alternate and blend various techniques in wonderfully expressive sonorities. |
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| Melodic phrases, often given to brass instruments, emerge against the background of a basically rhythmic motivic web and, particularly in the central movement, form more lyrical polyphonic passages. |
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