Leitmotif

Japanese: ライトモティーフ
Leitmotif
Translated as "indicative motive." A musical motive (fragmentary melody) that expresses or symbolizes a person, thing, situation, idea, or concept in Richard Wagner's music dramas and program music. Wagner's friend and editor-in-chief of the magazine Bayreuth, H. von Wolzogen (1848-1938), used it in his essay on the Ring of the Nibelung (1876), and Wagner himself called it the "Grundthema" or "Ahnungsmotiv." This is a development of Berlioz's "fixed musical idea," and has been used since Wagner in operas by Richard Strauss and others, as well as in symphonic poems. A similar technique is also found in early modern Japanese performance arts such as kabuki.

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Japanese:
示(指)導動機と訳す。R.ワーグナーの楽劇や標題音楽において,人物や事物,あるいは状況や想念・概念を表現,象徴する音楽動機(断片的旋律)。ワーグナーの友人で《バイロイト誌》の編集主幹H.vonウォルツォーゲン〔1848-1938〕が,《ニーベルングの指環》論(1876年)で用いたもので,ワーグナー自身は〈基礎主題Grundthema〉〈予感動機Ahnungsmotiv〉などと呼んだ。これはベルリオーズの〈固定楽想〉の発展であり,ワーグナー以後もR.シュトラウスなどのオペラ,また交響詩の分野で活用されている。これに類似した技法が歌舞伎などの日本近世の演奏芸術にもある。

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