The first statement, exactly as it sounds in the melody.
Semitones between consecutive notes. This is the transposition-invariant identity of the cell: two statements a fifth apart share it.
Onset-to-onset gaps as multiples of the first gap, so an even cell reads
[1, 1, 1] whatever the tempo or note values it is written in.
Every statement found, in time order; the first is notes.
Why this counts as a motif.
A recurring melodic cell.
Identity is the interval sequence plus the rhythmic profile, so every statement of the motif carries the same
intervalsandrhythmhowever far it has been transposed or however wide its note values are written.notesholds one statement — the first — exactly as it sounds.