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Leitmotif

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60 Second Guide to Film Music - Leitmotifs

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Kira - Bites the Dust (JJBA Musical Leitmotif/MMV)

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All Leitmotifs in BIG SHOT

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Music Composition Tutorial 07 - Leitmotifs, Themes and Other Recurring Things

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Killer Queen - Yoshikage Kira (JoJolion) (JJBA Musical Leitmotif/MMV)

A leitmotif or leitmotiv is a "short, constantly recurring musical phrase" associated with a particular person, place, or idea. It is closely related to the musical concepts of idée fixe or motto-theme. The spelling leitmotif is an anglicization of the German Leitmotiv, literally meaning "leading motif", or perhaps more accurately, "guiding motif". A musical motif has been defined as a "short musical idea ... melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic, or all three", a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition: "the smallest structural unit possessing thematic identity."