Motif in Music

Allanbrook, Wye Jamison. Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Grey, Thomas S. "… wie ein rother Faden: On the Origins of r'leitmotif' as Critical Construct and Musical Practice." In Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism, edited by Ian Bent. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Grimm, M. "Motif." In Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raissoné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. Vol. 10. Neuchâtel, Switzerland: S. Faulche, 1765.

Houle, George. Meter in Music, 1600–1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Koch, Heinrich Christoph. Introductory Essay on Composition: The Mechanical Rules of Melody (Sections 3 and 4). Leipzig, Germany, 1787. Translated, with an introduction, by Nancy Kovaleff Baker. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1983.

Schenker, Heinrich. Harmony. Edited and annotated by Oswald Jonas, translated by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1954.

Yeston, Maury. The Stratification of Musical Rhythm. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1976.