Sentence examples for variation movement from inspiring English sources
So in the middle of this theme and variation movement he inserts a fugue, and a fugue inserted inside another form is called a fugato.
Unlike a conventional theme and variation movement, the minor mode variation is placed immediately after the statement of the theme; normally, the minor mode theme would be held back for later in the movement.
Especially appealing is the theme-and-variations movement with its touches of Hungarian melody and rhythm.
In the ethereal theme-and-variations movement that ends Opus 109, Levit revealed an equal gift for cantabile playing, for spinning out a long, lyrical line.
In the "Appassionata," the variations movement may have moved several notches below the composer's "Andante con moto"; but even when too slow, Mr. Sherman is interesting.
At its most raw and ritualistic, this has distinct shades of Stravinsky, until the final theme and variations movement, where the concertino-style episode for percussion had its own primal impact.
In Zvi Gotheiner's "Andante, Ma Moderato," Suzanne Gardner, Gerald Casel and Ms. Brendel seemed intoxicated by a spell cast by the great theme and variations movement from the String Sextet in F (Op. 118).
Between them comes a theme-and-variations movement that looks back to Bach's contrapuntal logic while also hinting at the spidery atonal works to come in Stravinsky's near future.
And he gave a captivating, though somewhat somber, performance of an unusual Brahms work, an arrangement for piano of the Theme and Variations movement from the String Sextet in B flat.
The second half of the evening brought Ms. Weir's "Blanche Comme la Neige," a brief variations movement from her Piano Quartet, again built ingeniously on a folk ballad, this time from Louisiana.
And where Uchida and Steinberg give the theme-and-variations movement a Schubertian mixture of sadness and restraint, Manze and Egarr's account is full of the kind of irony and coy humor that abounds in Mozart's operas.
