Term: obbligato: a persistent but subordinate motif
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: mime: an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: animal pigment: pigment occurring in animals
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: armored personnel carrier: (military) an armored vehicle (usually equipped with caterpillar treads) that is used to transport infantry
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: wax myrtle: any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: iyar: the eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May)
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: spendthrift trust: a trust created to maintain a beneficiary but to be secure against the beneficiary's improvidence
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: truman doctrine: President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: disaster: an act that has disastrous consequences
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: novation: (law) the replacement of one obligation by another by mutual agreement of both parties; usually the replacement of one of the original parties to a contract with the consent of the remaining party
Broader: motif: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Unrelated: kickoff: (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score