Which is an accurate definition of Leitmotiv?

a) a brief musical idea, subject to transformation, connected to a person, event, or idea
b) the first theme of the overture in a music drama
c) the first theme of an aria in a music drama
d) a fixed musical theme, used as a unifying device, that recurs throughout a music drama


a

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