In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form. The changes may involve melody, rhythm, harmony, counterpoint...

Look up variation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Variation or Variations may refer to: Variation (astronomy), any perturbation of the mean motion...

Edward Elgar composed his Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, popularly known as the Enigma Variations, between October 1898 and February 1899. It...

The double variation (also known as alternating variations) is a musical form used in classical music. It is a type of theme and variations that employs...

It is often said to be the first independent set of variations for orchestra in the history of music, although there is at least one earlier piece in the...

this from the "unravelling" procedures of contrapuntal tonal music, but developing variation may be related to other textures and to Schoenberg's own freely...

keyboard along with Bach's Goldberg Variations. The music writer Donald Tovey called it "the greatest set of variations ever written" and pianist Alfred...

Aria to Variation 9 Variations 10 to 22 Variations 23 to Aria Da Capo All of the above performed by David Ezra Okonşar Problems playing these files? See...

Eroica variations, Op. 35 Performed by Stefano Ligoratti Problems playing this file? See media help. The Variations and Fugue for Piano in E♭ major, Op...

Girolamo Frescobaldi, who transformed it into a series of continuous variations over a bass (which itself may be varied). Later composers adopted this...

chacony) is a type of musical composition often used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short...

In music, division (also called diminution or coloration)[clarification needed] refers to a type of ornamentation or variation common in 16th- and 17th-century...

Variations on a Theme may refer to: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge Carmen Variations (Horowitz), subtitled "Variations on a Theme from Carmen"...

is composed of a theme and eight variations (seven in Fitzenhagen's version), making up roughly 20 minutes of music. Part of the difficulty of the piece...

an aria formula for singing poetry and as a subject for instrumental variation. The pattern, which is found in an endless collection of compositions...

sostenuto Variation 1 Variation 2: Un poco più animato Variation 3: Più animato Variation 4 Variation 5: Agitato Variation 6: A tempo Variation 7: Con fuoco...

song (except for Joe Morello's drum solo and a variation on the chords in the middle section). The music from Miles Davis's modal period (c.1958–1963)...

a coda. In works in variation form, the coda occurs following the last variation and will be very noticeable as the first music not based on the theme...

Greatest Albums of All Time. Upon its release, Mule Variations received widespread critical acclaim. AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that "the...

Variations on "America" is a composition for organ by the American composer Charles Ives. Composed in 1891 when Ives was seventeen, it is an arrangement...

measure). The music grows louder and more excited and ends with a final quotation of the sixteenth note melody from the first variation. A typical performance...

Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35, is a work for piano composed in 1863 by Johannes Brahms, based on the Caprice No. 24 in A minor by Niccolò Paganini...

of ten variations: Variation 1: The first variation repeats the theme in "arco" while a new accompaniment is introduced. (E-flat major) Variation 2: The...

album. Variation (Hensoukyoku) is Nakamori's second studio album, released in 1982, three months after the release of her debut album. The music production...

Nicolai Malko. The best-known variation in the piece is the 18th variation, frequently selected in isolation in classical music compilations. The piece is...

Variation suite is a musical genre most popular during the early Baroque era. The variation suite consists of two or more movements where the first movement...

Autumn Variations is the seventh studio album by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was released on 29 September 2023 through his record label, Gingerbread...

Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman", K. 265/300e, is a piano composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed when he was around 25 years old...

a local variation of Jota, are the best-known and most characteristic of the Canary Islands. They are graceful music, with much variation between islands...

32 Variations in C minor performed in 2010 Problems playing this file? See media help. 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80 (German:...