Line #5 Leitmotif/Music


1	->''"Now, in our story, the characters are represented by instruments in the symphony orchestra. For example, the bird by the high sounds of the flute..."''
2	-->-- '''Narrator''', ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf''
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4	* The Alien-like "Weeow Waoow Waooh" sounds in Jeff Wayne's ''[[Music/JeffWaynesMusicalVersionOfTheWarOfTheWorlds The War of the Worlds]]'' musical, That and the martian ULLA.
5	* Prokofiev's ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'' is composed solely of {{leitmotif}}s and narration, and is frequently used to introduce the concept to children.
6	* Music/LesLuthiers' ''Teresa y el Oso'', which directly parodies ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'', does this to the extreme. The characters also have [[ParodyNames silly rhyming names]] in Spanish: "El Pajarillo Amarillo" (The Yellow Birdie), "La Mariposa Golosa" (The Sweet-toothed Butterfly), "El Molusco Pardusco" (The Brownish Molusk) and, most notably, "El Oso Libidinoso" (The Libidinous Bear).
7	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: "And of course, as always, the part of Bob the Janitor is played by the accordion." (He also tried to get Creator/DonAmeche to play the grandfather, but was stuck with a bassoon instead.)
8	* Music/RichardWagner may be considered the KING of the Leitmotif; though he was ''not'' its inventor, he certainly made the most extensive, elaborate, and probably the most intelligent use of it throughout the canon of his works. His great ''[[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Ring]]'' Cycle, for instance, consists almost entirely of a symphonic/dramatic development and interweaving of motives and themes and had a good 30 or 40 different ones in it!
9	* Music/JimSteinman, best known as the songwriter for Music/MeatLoaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" albums, interconnected many of his songs with stock phrases, imagery, and leitmotifs. Not surprisingly, he coined the term "Wagnerian rock" to describe his style.
10	* Karel Husa's four movement piece "Music for Prague 1968" has a few of these as well. The piccolo at the beginning and end of movt. 1 represents a songbird, the symbol for freedom. The ending sounds like it's dying. One part of the first movt. introduces the brass section, which represents the Soviets marching in and attacking with tanks and guns. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6W8Z-g3fPw A pretty good example of the first movt. is found here, though the best way to listen to this would be to close your eyes and imagine what it would've been like.]]
11	* Death metal band Bolt Thrower have the centrepiece song on most of their albums begin with a fade into the same riff, developing over the years. In its first iteration, ''World Eater'', and in most since, it is also the outro to the song.
12	* Music/CoheedAndCambria have the "TimeSkip" leitmotif appearing on several tracks across multiple albums, denoting...well, guess.
13	* Richard Strauss's "An Alpine Symphony" has several leitmotifs of descriptive significance. One of the main themes is the "Ascent" motif, an inversion of which is used for the descent.
14	* The Beach Boys/ Brian Wilson's ''Music/{{SMiLE\|TheBeachBoys}}'' features multiple, distinct variations of the Bycicle Rider theme and of the centerpiece Heroes and Villains; so many ,in fact, that most of the songs of the album could be thought as subsections of it. Its actual symbolism is up to discussion, due to the fragmented and unfinished character of the work, but it seems to represent the theme of travel throughout history and America from Plymouth to Hawaii.
15	* The Music/IFightDragons album ''The Near Future'' has the tune of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df_Xkh3MGfM Prelude]] repeat multiple times throughout.
16	* Music/FrankZappa used them heavily in many works, and some consist entirely of successions of leitmotifs.
17	* ''Music/TheWall'': All parts of "Another Brick In the Wall" have a similar arrangement, which reappears in "Hey You", "Waiting for the Worms", and "The Trial". Supposedly this represents vital moments involving Pink's metaphorical wall; in all parts of "Another Brick In the Wall", it represents The Wall's construction. In "Hey You", it represents Pink realizing he made a mistake isolating himself. In "Waiting for the Worms", it represents Pink's descent into fascism. In "The Trial", it reappears near the end when [[LargeHam The Judge]] orders him to tear down the wall for good.
18	* Music/TheDownwardSpiral has a simple melody repeat a few times throughout the album. Starting in "Piggy", and later becoming the main melody of the title track.
19	* Neo-Prog band Citizen Cain's 2002 album ''Playing Dead'' has a melancholy theme that recurs throughout many of the songs, in keeping with the band's typically dark and gloomy lyrics.
20	* Music/{{Eminem}} uses many to represent his [[KayfabeMusic alter-ego Slim Shady]]:
21	** A specific "''chkka-chkka''" disc scratching sound [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud made with Eminem's voice]], is used to represent Shady, generally to signal that [[IncomingHam he's making an entrance]]. First appears on "My Name Is", then turns up on "Forgot About Dre", "I'm Back", "Square Dance", "I'm Having A Relapse", "Cold Wind Blows", "We Made You", "Old Times' Sake", "Rap God", "Homicide", serves as a MusicalSpoiler to foreshadow the appearance of Slim in "My Darling", and many, ''many'' others.
22	** A lot of Slim Shady songs tend to use a particular {{tonality}} in the hook, which is supposed to imitate the sound of a [[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw revving chainsaw]]. It's a 'melody' beginning with a one-syllable leap from a speaking pitch to the top of Eminem's vocal range, and then slowly wheedling downwards until the next one-syllable pitch leap up. This originated in the hook of "The Real Slim Shady" ("''ii'''I'M''' Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady...''"), but can also be heard in the hooks of "Without Me" ("''nnow'''THIS''' looks like a job for me...''"), "Business" ("''ll'''LET'S''' get down to business...''"), "Just Lose It" ("''noww'''I'M''' gonna make you dance...''"), and "3 a.m." ("''it's th'''REE AM''' in the morning, ''pp'''PUT''' my key in the door...''")
23	** Chainsaw noises in general, either SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud (''"vrinn-vrinn!!"'') or actual chainsaw effects. The beat in "My Darling" uses the sound of a rumbling, barely-starting chainsaw as a percussive element, building up to a constant whine as Slim [[SplitPersonalityTakeover wins and takes over Marshall]].
24	** Just saying "Hi!" in a squeaky, cheerful voice is usually sufficient to represent Slim. This originates in "My Name Is", makes a couple of appearances in ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'', then continues throughout his later catalogue (most notably to introduce Slim in "Evil Twin" on ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2''). (Subverted in "Hello" on ''Relapse'', where Shady introduces himself in a low voice, using strangely polite language ("''Hello - allow me to introduce myself... my name is Shady, it's so nice to meet you''") - to signal [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness just how sorry he is]] about [[CreatorBreakdown what happened since he was last on an Eminem record]]).
25	** "''Guess who's back, back again/ Shady's back, tell a friend''" appears first on "Without Me", then turns up later on "Just Lose It". It then shows up in a deconstructed form (to signal the DarkerAndEdgier turn) on "I'm Having A Relapse", 'guess who's back' is [[SpokenWordInMusic spoken]] in the intro to "We Made You", and appears again in a very truncated form on "Marsh".
26	** While not used as often as the rest of these, a sung melody of "''down, down-down... down, down-down" shows up in both "Just Lose It" and "We Made You".

Context Leitmotif / Music