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Variations is a classical and rock fusion album. The music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and performed by his younger brother, the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.. The Lloyd Webber brothers were always very close but their two different careers (a rock musical composer and a classical cellist) meant that a collaboration seemed unlikely.
Theme-and-variation structure generally begins with a theme (which is itself sometimes preceded by an introduction), typically between eight and thirty-two bars in length; each variation, particularly in music of the eighteenth century and earlier, will be of the same length and structure as the theme. [8]
The critic Frank Howes comments that, unusually for a set of variations, the theme is not a short individual melody but 36 consecutive bars – "not a tune, nor even a theme, but a paragraph". [10] Theme, Andante con moto; The work begins with a statement of the theme: Hindemith's cello theme unaltered but distributed between sections of the ...
Op. 7, Fantasy No. 2, or Largo non tanto in C minor followed by Theme and Variations in C major – publ. 1814, ded. Ignaz Pleyel; Op. 10, Fantasy No. 3 in F major – 1816; Op. 12, Fantasy No. 4 in C major – 1821; Op. 16, Fantasy No. 5, or Introduction, Theme and Variations on Nel cor più non mi sento by Paisiello – 1819
The theme is followed by 14 variations. The variations spring from the theme's melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements, and the extended fourteenth variation forms a grand finale. Elgar dedicated the piece to "my friends pictured within" and in the score each variation is prefaced the initials, name or nickname of the friend depicted.
The Four Temperaments or Theme and Four Variations (The Four Temperaments) [1] [2] is an orchestral work and ballet by Paul Hindemith. Although it was originally conceived as a ballet for Léonide Massine , [ 1 ] the score was ultimately completed as a commission for George Balanchine , who subsequently choreographed it as a neoclassical ballet ...
A quiet variation looking at the contrast between staccato and legato. VI: A turbulent variation marked fortissimo as well as "sempre staccato e sforzato." The sforzatos are indicated in the music. VII and VIII: Are markedly quieter variations than Var. VI but musically are more difficult. IX: A variation with many slurs. X and XI
The theme begins with a repeated ten-measure passage which itself consists of two intriguing [citation needed] five-measure phrases, a quirk that is likely to have caught Brahms's attention. Almost without exception, the eight variations follow the phrasal structure of the theme and, though less strictly, the harmonic structure as well.