What's in a Name ?

A film composers primary objective is to create individual themes for each character portrayed in a given film and screenwriters make sure to utilize individually unique names for each character so that there is no confusion when identifing them. 

(Therefore I created this simple device in order to have another option for creating character themes.)

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PROCEDURE: Write out the alphabet in succession over any order of pitches (i.e., intervallic, scales, randomly or chromatically as show above) then take the characters names and combine the pitches. 

Since the names are uniquely different you will therefore have melodic motifs that are uniquely different.           

Then apply various rhythmic permutations, octave transposition, etc... to fully develop your leit-motifs. Enjoy!