Variations.¶
Sisman, E. (2001). Variations. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
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Primes¶
- Theme And Variation
- Music composition. The canonical site: a melodic-harmonic theme re-instantiated through ornamentation, mode change, rhythmic alteration, inversion, and augmentation, as in the great variation sets and in jazz heads riffed over a standard.
This sourceStandard reference on theme-and-variation form, its transformation techniques (ornamentation, mode change, diminution, inversion, augmentation), and the ground-bass/chaconne variation type.
- Music composition. The canonical site: a melodic-harmonic theme re-instantiated through ornamentation, mode change, rhythmic alteration, inversion, and augmentation, as in the great variation sets and in jazz heads riffed over a standard.
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