* The San Francisco-based band Om mentions Absalom in their song " Kapila's Theme " from their debut album Variations on a Theme.

He also composed one large scale instrumental work in 1815 intended as a study in late classical orchestration: Twenty-Six Variations for the Orchestra on a Theme called La Folia di Spagna.

La Folia was the most monumental set of orchestral variations before Brahms ' Variations on a Theme by Haydn.

Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.

Regarding Schmidt's political naivety, Michael Steinberg, in his magisterial book, The Symphony, tells of Schmidt's recommending Variations on a Hebrew Theme by his student Israel Brandmann to a musical group associated with the proto-Nazi German National Party.

* Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Piano ( left hand alone ) with orchestral accompaniment ; comp.

* Variations on a Hussar Song for orchestra ; comp.

* Variations and Fugue on an original Theme in D major ( King's Fanfare from Fredigundis ); 3.

* Variations and Fugue on an original Theme in D major ( King's Fanfare from Fredigundis ); 4.

* Variations on a theme by Christoph Willibald Gluck ( lost )

* Variations and Fugue on an original theme in D major ( King's Fanfare from Fredigundis ), 1.

* Variations and Fugue on an original theme in D major ( King's Fanfare from Fredigundis ), 2.

Variations of geocaches ( as listed on geocaching. com and other popular listing sites ) include:

Perhaps the most celebrated composer who wrote for the harpsichord was J. S. Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), whose solo works ( for instance, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations ), continue to be performed very widely, often on the piano.

Variations on the term have been " inclusive monotheism " and " monarchical polytheism ", designed to differentiate differing forms of the phenomenon.

Brahms's works in variation form include, among others, the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel and the Paganini Variations, both for solo piano, and the Variations on a Theme by Haydn ( now sometimes called the Saint Anthony Variations ) in versions for two pianos and for orchestra.

Although Wagner became fiercely critical of Brahms as the latter grew in stature and popularity, he was enthusiastically receptive of the early Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel ; Brahms himself, according to many sources ( Swafford, 1999 ), deeply admired Wagner's music, confining his ambivalence only to the dramaturgical precepts of Wagner's theory.

Variations such as nicks, scratches, and tears on the dorsal fin and the pattern of white or grey in the saddle patch are unique.

Variations in text formatting and layout can also hinder a seamless transition from one wiki to the next.

Miss Xydis' earlier selections were Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses, in which each variation was nicely set off from the others ; ;

Variations of the Compactron design were made by Sylvania and by some Japanese firms.

Variations of the documentary hypothesis remain popular especially in America and Israel, and the identification of distinctive Deuteronomistic and Priestly theologies and vocabularies remains widespread, but they are used to form new approaches suggesting that the books were combined gradually over time by the slow accumulation of " fragments " of text, or that a basic text was " supplemented " by later authors / editors.

As for the composition date of Mozart's Variations, for a time the variations were thought to have been composed in 1778, while Mozart stayed in Paris from April to September in that year, the assumption being that the melody of a French song could only have been picked up by Mozart while residing in France.

" Variations on this theme were subsequently explored by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in his story / mock-essay Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

Variations of morganatic marriage were also practised by non-European dynasties, such as the Royal Family of Thailand, the polygamous Mongols as to their non-principal wives, and other families of Africa and Asia.

Variations to this schedule — such as spring-term study-abroad programs, full-year study-abroad programs, and winter SIPs — were also common.

Rather unusually for Bach's works, the Goldberg Variations were published in his own lifetime, in 1741.

In 1899, when the Variations were being finished, Elgar wrote to Lady Mary Lygon to ask permission to use her initials, but as she and her brother were on the point of leaving for Australia ( he had been appointed Governor of New South Wales ) and there was not time for a reply Elgar used "***" instead.

Variations were discussed and catalogued, swap meets organized, and new journals or bulletins began to appear, written by and for the serious collector.

Variations of one form, the old European system, were once used throughout Europe.

Some by the performers for whom they were written, such as the concertos for piano ( 1939 ), violin ( 1955 ) and cello ( 1970 ); some by literary and theatrical partners, such as the film music, ballets, cantatas and The Olympians ; some by painters, such as the Serenade and the Metamorphic Variations ; some by classical literature, such as Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ), The Enchantress and Pastoral.

" The first concert included Elgar's Enigma Variations, in which Cardus judged Monteux to be more faithful to Elgar's conception than English conductors generally were.

Variations of < sup >− 1 </ sup > were measured over a 20 year period, which is much higher than the measurement error rate of < sup >− 1 </ sup >.

Variations of the theme were used for twelve seasons of the series.

Variations were seen from which the stripe formed from a falling feather or was backlit.

Variations on this system were used in libraries until the late 1800s when Melvil Dewey developed the Dewey Decimal Classification in 1876, which is still in use today.

Variations of the term, such as " lynch law ", " judge lynch ", and " lynching ", were standard entries in American and British English dictionaries by the 1850s.

Variations were not unusual, however, as research has shown in São Paulo, 31 % of fathers gave dowries of increasing size to the younger daughters, and 21 % distributed dowries with no particular favour shown to birth order of the daughters.

Some of his musical articles for the New Statesman and other journals were reprinted in Music and Life, Facing the Music, Musical Meanderings, and Variations on the theme of Music.

Variations in total solar irradiance were too small to detect with technology available before the satellite era, although the small fraction in ultra-violet light has recently been found to vary significantly more than previously thought over the course of a solar cycle.

Variations in barrel length did exist, but those were the product of machining tolerances, differences between factories, and / or experimental long-barreled rifles.

His photographs were published in the Surrealist journal Minotaure, 5 December 1934 under the title " Poupée, variations sur le montage d ' une mineure articulée " ( The Doll, Variations on the Assemblage of an Articulated Minor ).