#motive__motif  a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
  supertype:  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"
  subtype:  obligato__obbligato  a persistent but subordinate motif

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