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In the domain of purely instrumental music, to which leitmotive are perfectly adapted in the realization of ‘programme music’, the earliest examples are to be found in the Symphonie Fantastique of Berlioz, where what he terms idée fixe is used in the manner of a ‘leitmotiv’.
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A further application of the rhymes and repetitions is to be seen in Queneau’s use of leitmotive, whereby his texts are pervaded by objects which, again, serve to indicate the deliberate organisation underlying the surface of the narrative.
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While Pentecostalism differs both in doctrine and pneumatology from the Afro-Christian sects, its indigenisation in Jamaica has meant that the leitmotive of black folk belief reinvigorated the movement, which had been largely "de-Africanised" by white Pentecostals, and thus restored many of the perceptions and themes which had been present at the birth of the Pentecostalism in Los Angeles.
Source: wiktionary
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