1.   Another commercial, for the Advantage brand of flea control products sold by the Bayer Corp., features a fanciful musical motif.

2.   As always, each major character has his or her own musical motif, as do major worlds, certain battles and several varieties of creature.

3.   Celtic ballads, sung mostly in Gaelic, are a running musical motif.

4.   The music and lyrics are heard on tape, where Peaslee takes a similar tack, mixing Renaissance musical motifs with contemporary percussion.

5.   The top was decorated with a rectangular center panel depicting Grecian women or goddesses with a putto were flanked by musical motifs like lyres, also in marquetry.

6.   They take pictures of the wrought-iron gate with its musical motif and of the white-columned, brick house on the knoll.

7.   To further that effect, Taymor and her design team blended costumes, military weaponry, musical motifs and architectural styles from different historical epochs.

8.   Trained as a classical musician before he came to the United States to study architecture, Libeskind has often used musical motifs in his unbuilt works.