All music fans harbor in their memories vivid fragments of their favorite works. The starting guitar solo of "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, the da-da-da-DUM gesture that opens Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the lush swelling chords of a beloved movie soundtrack: hearing the …
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"Motives, the small, recurring shape elements primarily identified by their pitch and rhythm profiles, are near-ubiquitous in music. Yet despite their longstanding prominence in composition and in past and present discourse on music, motives have resisted systematic treatment. T…
Author Brent Auerbach look at the ways that motives - or the small-scale pitch and rhythm shapes ever-present in music-tie musical compositions together, and why we remember some more than others.
"Motives, the small, recurring shape elements primarily identified by their pitch and rhythm profiles, are near-ubiquitous in music. Yet despite their longstanding prominence in composition and in past and present discourse on music, motives have resisted systematic treatment. T…