Her former motif expressive of anxiety is taken up and maintained by the orchestra, becoming the nucleus of the situation, the surprise of the other serving only to give light and shade.
The whole movement closes with the words "Quam (lucem sanctam) olim Abrahae promisisti" in an elaborate fugue, the effect of which is heightened by the accompaniment which carries out a motif of its own in close imitation.
We recognise in the principal subject which opens the movement--[See Page Images] the motif of which Mozart made frequent use even in his youth (Vol.
The music follows the course of the emotions in a continuous flow, without allowing any definite motif to predominate.
Then the petition for eternal rest is renewed with a stronger expression of confidence, but still with the ground-tone of painful agitation, rendered, by the union with the first motif of a second, more animated and more forcible.
Stadler also points out that Mozart has taken the motif to the Kyrie from one of Handel's oratorios.
This the poet uses as the main motif at regular intervals, slightly varying it in the sixth to express his own feelings directly, and closing the poem with it in the ninth.
This motif is clearly expressed in 1 and is repeated in 25.
Indeed, the spinning is treated as a characteristic motif for the Norseman's bride, somewhat as it is Senta's motif in "The Flying Dutchman.
An interesting subject is suggested by Kelley's experience in hunting out a goodmotif for the galloping horses of "Macbeth.
The Winter motive may be again divided into a chill and icy motif and a rushing wind-motif.
It is now held--and doubtless rightly--by the majority of scholars that the unity of interest imparted to the Nibelungenlied by the motif of Kriemhild's revenge is a later improvement on the somewhat disconnected story given in the Edda.
But though the motif may not have been a common one in heroic poetry--as compared with sagas relating to the Viking Age--there can be no doubt that the belief in shape-changing goes back to a remote antiquity.
In the Norse version no such central motif is to be found.
Both stories contain indications of Scandinavian origin and we can hardly doubt that the motif was a popular one in the folk-tales of the North.
Indeed the spoiling of a dwarf is quite a common motif in Northern tales, while at the same time such beings are constantly credited with extraordinary skill in metallurgy.
It will be seen that throughout the heroic poetry of the Teutonic peoples, in episodes as well as in the main stories, the chief motif is almost invariably love or revenge or personal bravery.
We have seen that this motif is incompatible with the current mythological interpretation of the story.
Kriemhild's revenge for Siegfried forms the central motif of the second half of the Nibelungenlied.
This may be seen most clearly in cases where the poems of two or more nations not merely treat an identical theme but also agree in the motif or in comparatively small details, as in the stories of Ingeld, Waldhere and Svanhildr.
The motif of the lonely wanderer in distant lands is not prominent in the remains of our poetry, but from what is said of Sigemund in Beow.
But more than this, it is plainly not a motifderived from mythology at all, but from real life.
But matter does not include spirit, so the motif of your dream grows all confused.
If a ballad wakes a response in him, it is because itsmotif has been singing itself of its own accord in his heart, and its rhythm was the dream nightingale to which he bade Her hearken.
The chintz which is used for curtains will supply a motif for the painted shades if one wishes them, but if there is a great deal of chintz, plain shades will be more attractive.
A motif from the paper can be used for the furniture or it can simply be striped with the color chosen for the plain curtains.
Illustration: This simple slat-backed chair can be made most attractive at small expense with paint and a motif from the chintz for decoration.
A motiffrom the chintz can be used on the furniture for the decoration, but if the wall paper is figured the effect will be more restful if the furniture is only striped.
The Towhee motifis not uncommon in his songs, and the supposed notes of a Willow Goldfinch, a little off color, were traced to his door, at Blaine.
For to the characteristic ditty of bewickii proper, calophonus has introduced so many trills and flourishes that the original motif is almost lost to sight.
The water-bubble motifis carried through all vertical members which symbolize the Crustacean Period, which is the second stratum of the court.
There is the same motif of cold in the sky and the fruits, intensified by the somber leafage of fir and pine.
Had I the power of music I would make a world-wide motif swell and amplify, gather to itself this theme and that, and rise at last to sheer ecstasy of triumph and rejoicing.
Here we have the motifof American telephone development.
And the personality of the veteran scientist made so vivid a picture upon the mind of the impressionable young Bell that the grand passion of science became henceforth the master-motif of his life.
I have a splendid little book which has the leading motifs written out at the back and in the margins of the pages a statement of just what motif occurs at certain lines.
Meanwhile the orchestra is playing beautiful music, elaborating a theme which I called motif du potage.
The spring motif of "The Valkyrie" is the incarnation of tenderness and eternal freshness, and the climax of the whole opera seems to me simply colossal.
A familiar English parallel is the London coster lovers' habit of exchanging hats, when out for dalliance on Hampstead Heath; here also the original or sub-conscious motif is a sense of indentity.
It is interesting to note that a clog motif, similar to the motif of shoes in The Elves and the Shoemaker, occurs in the Hindu Panch-Rhul Ranee, told in Old Deccan Days.
The Touchstone motif of a humble individual causing nobility to laugh appears in Grimm's Dummling and His Golden Goose.
Contains a motif similar to one in The Singing, Soaring Lark.
The whole point of the motifis that rapid run with the minim at the end, and he actually allowed that beast to make a rallentando.
Listen, there's the Venus motifcrossing the Pilgrim's march.
And the mind of the child, keenly sensitive and receptive to truth, had eagerly grasped this dictum and made it the motif of her life.
But always he seems to have seen his motif with the finely disinterested passion of an artist.
My notion is that Duncan Grant often starts from some mixed motif which, as he labours to reduce it to form and colour, he cuts, chips, and knocks about till you would suppose that he must have quite whittled the alloy away.
A distinctly borrowed motifis the accidental finding of papers which contain matters of interest.
The churchyard scene with which the journey ends is more openly fanciful, down-right visionary in tone, but the manner is very emphatically not that of Sterne, though in the midst the Sterne motif of nettle-plucking is introduced.
The builder was trying to cram into a given space every motif in the Builder's Handbook: Greek entablature at the top of the pediment, crowded center panel, broken pediment, and the top of the pediment jammed into the cap fretwork.
The decoration is achieved by the returns around the pilasters, the reeded trim and diamond motif in the center panel.
The decoration of the risers and landing, in a diamond motif paneled in a delicate mold, is reminiscent of the designer, Adam.
The conventionalmotif of the story of Petronius is the wrath of an offended deity.
I say the efficient, because the conventional motif which seems to account for all the misadventures of the anti-hero Encolpius is the wrath of an offended deity.
Another scene, in which the rival motif is heard, shews a strong body of ugly-looking Germans at practice over some shallow trenches some distance behind their line.
Where, in my opinion, he is supremely great, apart from his world-deep revelations of direct human feeling, is in his imaginative fusion of some particular spiritual or materialmotif through the whole fabric of a story.
Thus far the motif seems to be that of a Cinderella oppressed by brothers but exalted by the most magnificent of princes.
They had adopted as an ornamental motifthe cluster of twisting arms of the octopus, the semi-circular striations of sea-shells, the trailing filmy umbrella form of the jelly-fish.
The outstanding decorative motif of this building, famous throughout the world, was the imitation of gold and precious stones.
