MOTIVIC DEVELOPMENT - JULIÁN RICO - MUSIC IBDP

Motivic Development Julián Rico – Colegio Colombo Gales – Music IBDP

What is a motive in music? How the motive Works through the melody?  A smallest recognizable musical idea  Repetition of motives is what lends coherence to a melody  A motive can feature  Rhythm

 Pitch  Intervals  Those features can chage in its repetitions

What is a motive? (Example)

Normally it has one bar of duration, sometimes two

Motivic Development Techniques  Repetition  Transposition  Variation  Fragmentation  Intervallic alteration

 Inversion  Retrograde

 Augmentation  Disminution

 Extension  Truncation

Rhythm

Pitch

Intervals

Repetition

Transposition

Variation

Fragmentation

Intervallic alteration, Inversion and Retrograde.

Augmentation and Disminution

Augmentation and Disminution

Extension and Truncation

Bibliography • Gottry Music Theory • Julián Rico