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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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вариации
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