darthwicker

Hi man, Yes, I probably could cite many examples of non repetative motivic ideas but the purpose of this thread is not for us to show everybody else how much we each think we know about music or to end up arguing over it. I'm sure we've both composed enough pieces of music each to have our own thoughts on what makes a motif or what doesn't. I personally think that most of JW underscore for SW can be considered leitmotif because the majority of it for me originates in the larger themes of the films.

First of all I would just like to say hi. I think a motif can be considered a motif without it being restated. For a motif to be considered to have any sort of leitmotivic indentification it would need to be restated and reshaped but other than that there are too many other abstract thoughts, ideas, emotions, etc. that the single use of a motif can represent that never need to be expressed again in a piece of music or art after it's initial use but that does not take anything away from the motif being able to stand alone and represent itself there and only then.