Variation
Definition of the German term Variation in music:
- variation, change
- variation (repetition of a theme with changes in melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, orchestration, or a combination of these)
Language
German
Singular
Variation
Plural
Variationen
Abbreviation
var.
Synonym
Musical examples
Music scores that include Variation:
- Franz Schubert: Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli (1821) Page 1
- Heinrich Reimann: Organ Sonata (1887) Page 1
- Robert Schumann: Symphonic Etudes (1834) Page 1
Related terms
German musical terms related to Variation:
- Abwechslung – alternation, change
- Revision – revision, change
- umwechseln – change
- verändern – change
- vertauschen – to exchange, to mix up
- Verwandlung – transformation, change
- Verwechslung – change, inversion, mutation...
- Wechsel – change, alternation, exchange, rotation
- wechseln – to change, to alter
- wechselt – changes, alternates