In his new hourlong composition, "The Book of the Storm," it also serves as a thematic device.

He was one of the first composers to systematically and consistently use interlocking thematic devices, or "germ-motives", to achieve unity between movements in long compositions.

Insight on idea of the germ-motive thematic device, definitions from 1913 Webster's: 2.

From there they turned to thematic devices like the ease with which characters move between normal and abnormal worlds.

BUT its major thematic device is effective, and would not come naturally to a music-focused jazz historian.

From 1966 through 1969 he produced several large welded pieces, often using birds as a thematic device.

The Cuillin is a key thematic device in the Gaelic-language family film Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle.

Reasons to Be Perhaps the master of the form, Steven Bochco has incorporated the teaser as a thematic device.

"The show grew out of building bricks of two and three songs, each with a thematic device to slip into the next one with some feeling of continuity," Mr. Bowie said.

Whether you think the image is merely decorative or a thematic device upon which Mr. Feld builds increasingly complex variations depends upon your mood or your perception.