This bachelor thesis sets to find new ways of composing with a systematical use of musical motifs. The main purpose was to add a structured and systematical approach to the process of composition to reduce the necessity of inspiration and thereby be able to compose more consistently.

The project started out by finding concrete ways to create and develop motific ideas by analyzing how motific development is done in existing music of different genres and by reading literature on the subject. I then used these ideas to compose short etudes, each with a different approach of the use of motifs and motific development. These methods subsequently resulted in a concert with seven original compositions.

I reflected upon how the use of motifs affect the way I compose and in what way it affects the compositions as a whole and how I approach the compositions musically through the guitar. I concluded that it was substantially harder to compose longer compositions than short etudes by using solely these methods. And instead of seeing it as a way to reduce the necessity of inspiration maybe use it to spark inspiration.