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Meanings of variations on a theme in English

Russian
вариации
Portuguese
variação
Spanish
variacion
Catalan
tema i variacions

Musical form.

Related terms
вариации
Usage of variations on a theme in English
1
They were all variations on a theme-sequencesof technoglyphs with scrawled annotation.
Broken angels
2
It's intended to become a massive travelogue of variations on a theme.
Wired
3
The result is a lively, inventive entertainment born of variations on a theme.
The Irish Times
4
He is now even composing variations on a theme of mine.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
5
I watch how they stand, how they walk and talk, variations on a theme.
The new yorker
6
I watched as the pattern changed and re-formed itself, working variations on a theme.
The burglar who painted like mondrian
7
Yes, other options are valuable but it is more nuanced than that, variations on a theme.
The Guardian
8
Few writers have written as many variations on a theme as successfully and elegantly as Brookner.
The Irish Times
9
But most controllers are variations on a theme.
Wired
10
Their work plays variations on a theme.
The Guardian
11
Current drugs for treating schizophrenia are mostly variations on a theme that was started over 50 years ago.
Pubmed
12
What a complete change of atmosphere came with Rachmaninov's too seldom heard variations on a theme of Chopin.
The Irish Times
13
The Lutaslowski variations on a theme by Paganini encore was a triumph of glittering technique and musical symbiosis.
Radio NZ
14
Different variations on a theme.
A kiss of shadows
15
Eventually there was nothing original for us, only variations on a theme that had been played a million times before.
The Naked God
16
In the course of a few weeks you shall have thirty-three new variations on a theme [Valse, Op.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2