| His symphonic scores revisited the motivic and symphonic aesthetic of the 19th century, a move regarded as retrogressive by modernist critics. |
| In less capable hands such a flurry of motivic activity can disintegrate into the unintelligible. |
| The second motivic element announced in these opening bars is a quick upward scale. |
| The outer movements are both jazzy, with ostinati and motivic development in the first and brighter pizzicato textures and dance-like rhythms in the finale. |
| Tools for concrete calculations include algebraic K-theory and motivic cohomology. |
| Throughout, the saxophonist eschews the obvious, opting for restraint or curiously oblique phrases rather than motivic development. |
