Motive
a short recurring music figure that appears throughout a composition or section of music
Melodic Motive
a repeated pitch pattern
Rhythm Motive
a recurring pattern
Sequence
the immediate restatement of a melodic motive or longer music figure in the same instrumental or vocal part at a higher or lower pitch. Each separate unit of the ? forms a segment
Real Sequence
contains segments that are exact transposition of the first segment. Every tone is transposed at exactly the same intervallic distance
Tonal Sequence