Sentence examples for in variation form from inspiring English sources

Works in variation form are the performer's supreme school of characterisation.

The more lyrical second movement, "Andante con moto," consists of two alternating themes in variation form.

That sound instigated the final movement's Threnody, painstakingly worked in variation form with a final passacaglia, like Brahms but with a greater carbon footprint.

In his later sonatas and quartets he began to move away from the dualistic sonata principle and back to the monistic approach exemplified in variation form and fugue.

Unlike his contemporaries, Bach wrote infrequently in variation form, with two decades separating the Chaconne of the Partita in D minor for solo violin and the "Goldberg" Variations.

The music is a passacaglia, an old dance in variation form, here rendered with lacy lyrical writing and ethereal harmonies by the multiskilled Mr. Adès, who, by the way, drew a textured, glittering and suspenseful account of his opera from the great Met orchestra.

The Second Quartet (op.39) is already more intense and concentrated and the third movement in variation-form – slow, like every movement in this quartet except for the brief Allegro segment of the first – casts pre-shadows of Janáček… plus a whiff of Ravel.

It is in double variation form, with the first theme in A major and the second theme in A minor.

This procedure is also found in early operatic arias in the strophic variation form, in which each statement of the ostinato corresponds to a strophe of the aria's text.

- opens with an expressive Andante Cantabile, written in double variation form.

He suggests that Mr. Rzewski's interest in the variation form relates to his longtime practice of improvisation and that his choice of simple songs reflects his politics.