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leitmotifIn music, a recurring theme or motive used to illustrate a character or idea. The term is strongly associated with Richard Wagner, who frequently employed this technique with great sophistication in his music dramas; it is also strongly prevalent in music for film. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The most pervasive option to manage such change has thus far been found in the leitmotiv of providing better care more efficiently through sweeping quality improvements. The centrality of the utilitas rei publicae and the common good was also the Leitmotiv in the discourses of those who in later medieval French history are known as the reformateurs, officers, delegates in representative assemblies, and scholars who strove for social reform. Martin Luther King's leitmotiv of mountains that stirred national crowds away from their "swingin' " toward less explicitly violent forms of social action. |
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