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  2. Variation (music) - Wikipedia

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    Variation techniques are frequently used within pieces that are not themselves in the form of theme and variations. For example, when the opening two-bar phrase of Chopin's Nocturne in F minor returns later in the piece, it is instantly repeated as an elegant melodic re-working:

  3. Developing variation - Wikipedia

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    In musical composition, developing variation is a formal technique in which the variations are produced through the development of existing material. The term was coined by Arnold Schoenberg, twentieth-century composer and inventor of the twelve-tone technique, who believed it was one of the most important compositional principles since around 1750: [1]

  4. Thematic transformation - Wikipedia

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    Thematic transformation (also known as thematic metamorphosis or thematic development) is a musical technique in which a leitmotif, or theme, is developed by changing the theme by using permutation (transposition or modulation, inversion, and retrograde), augmentation, diminution, and fragmentation.

  5. Musical technique - Wikipedia

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    Musical technique may also be distinguished from music theory, in that performance is a practical matter, but study of music theory is often used to understand better and to improve techniques. Techniques such as intonation or timbre, articulation, and musical phrasing are nearly universal to all instruments.

  6. Musical form - Wikipedia

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    In music, form refers to the structure of a musical composition or performance.In his book, Worlds of Music, Jeff Todd Titon suggests that a number of organizational elements may determine the formal structure of a piece of music, such as "the arrangement of musical units of rhythm, melody, and/or harmony that show repetition or variation, the arrangement of the instruments (as in the order of ...

  7. Category:Variations - Wikipedia

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    Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli (Liszt) Les Djinns (Franck) E. ... Walsingham (music) Variations for piano (Webern) Y. The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

  8. Category:Musical techniques - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Musical techniques" The following 123 pages are in this category, out of 123 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  9. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel - Wikipedia

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    The light mood of the preceding variation continues in Variation 22. Often referred to as the "musical-box" variation because of the regularity of its rhythm, underlined particularly by a drone bass, [13] Variation 22 alludes to the Baroque musette, a soft pastoral air imitating the sound music of a bagpipe, or musette.