motto instrument
English translation: symbolic instrument
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| 5 | leitmotif instrument |
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| 4 | motto instrument |
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| 4 | symbolic instrument |
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| 1 | see explanation |
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13 mins confidence: 
see explanation Explanation: I don't know what motto instrument is but I thought that the definition (in a musical context) from the OED might inspire you: motto: a recurrent phrase having some symbolical significance. I think maybe the sound of the viola (sweet, etc) represents the woman and that therefore the viola is her motto instrument. Just an idea though! OED imagination :) |
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15 mins confidence:
leitmotif instrument Explanation: Implicit in answer. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-01-04 21:48:46 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- From The New Penguin English Dictionary: leitmotiv or leitmotif noun 1 a musical phrase that signals an idea, or situation, esp. in operas of Wagner. ....... My geriatric brain. |
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50 mins confidence:
motto instrument Explanation: Motto is Italien and means jest or joke, or motto (watchword) or device. It is a wellknown term in music. See link below: -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-01-04 22:10:57 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- All eight concertos feature the three-movement layout (fast-slow-fast) that Albinoni did so much to popularize in his earliest published concertos, Op. 2 (1700) and Op. 5 (1707). The outer movements employ a curious hybrid form that in part follows the pattern of Albinoni\'s string concertos (where the same \"motto\" theme introduces each musical section) but also borrows from the \"da capo\" aria. Albinoni regularly makes the oboe enter with its own \"motto\" phrase. The first time, this idea is cut short by the strings; the second time, the oboe is allowed to extend the idea to the end of the section. This opening gambit, for which the German scholar Hugo Riemann coined the term \"Devise\" (the German word for a heraldic \"device\"), is very common in arias written around 1700, although, strangely enough, it was becoming obsolete by the time Albinoni decided to use it in his concertos. Generally speaking, the \"string\" motto and the \"oboe\" motto are thematically related or have a common harmonic structure. Albinoni is a composer for whom repetition (with enough variation to keep tedium at bay) is a more characteristic process than contrast. Reference: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=albin... |
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59 mins confidence:
symbolic instrument Explanation: con el que pretendía representar a Katia. Muy por encima de los demás destaca el papel de la protagonista, Katerina (Kát’a), mucho más difícil en lo que respecta a la definición del carácter que en los condicionamientos de tipo técnico o tesitural. Janácek, al referirse a él, decía: «El personaje principal es una mujer de índole tan dulce que podría llevársela un soplo de brisa, y no ya la tempestad que se abate sobre ella». Reference: http://www.amicsliceu.com/temp0102/cast/c09katia.html |
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