#melodic_theme__melodictheme__theme__musical_theme__musicaltheme__idea  melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
  supertype:  #tune__melody__air__strain__melodic_line__melodicline__line__melodic_phrase__melodicphrase  a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
  subtype:  #motive__motif  a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
     subtype:  #obligato__obbligato  a persistent but subordinate motif
  subtype:  #statement.melodic_theme  (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata"
  subtype:  #variation.melodic_theme  a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished

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