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Meanings of set of variations in English

Russian
вариации
Portuguese
variação
Spanish
variacion
Catalan
tema i variacions

Musical form.

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        Usage of set of variations in English
        1
        This was a set of variations for piano, on a German melody.
        The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
        2
        Cresswell says that it's basically a set of variations on the six themes.
        Radio NZ
        3
        In music, a short melody from which a set of variations is developed.
        Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4
        4
        And the set of variations on an 18th-century drinking song is equally well turned.
        The Irish Times
        5
        He wrote a set of variations for it as the Andante of his "Kaiser Quartet."
        Haydn
        6
        After a sweet and lilting third movement the orchestra delivered a rousing set of variations with the finale.
        Radio NZ
        7
        In 1822, he wrote and published a set of variations on a French air, and dedicated them to Beethoven.
        The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
        8
        It's a set of variations, each punctuated by a recurring percussion motif … there's a hypnotic sense of peace and timelessness.
        Radio NZ
        9
        Military history is nothing but a set of variations on that theme, and a dark, grim, and bloody theme it is.
        For Honor We Stand
        10
        The CD is topped and tailed by a delightful Rameau arrangement and a set of variations on Eileen Aroon by Dublin-based Matthew Dubourg.
        The Irish Times
        11
        This Elegy provided the inspiration for David's Sextet in which the last movement is a set of variations on the poignant African hymn Wakrazulwa.
        The South African
        12
        But Gimeno makes his unorthodoxy plausible, as he does in the couplings, two early Scherzos, a set of variations and the Five Fragments, Op.
        The Irish Times
        13
        This was soon followed by a set of Variations, Op.
        The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians