The Emergence Machine

Variation Music

physical · Music · Level 11 · E9

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Emergence definition

A compositional technique emerges when a musical theme is repeated with modifications, leveraging the intersection of learning and practice to develop a learned ability in performing a task, and combining songs, music, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance to create a cohesive narrative structure.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “variation music” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “variation music”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
variation
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL11L10L9L8L2L1L0Variation MusicMusicalPerformanceTechniqueThemeNarrativeSkill… intermediate l…EnvironmentFormIdeaInformationActionChangeMatterWaveEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesVariation MusicL11TechniqueL9ThemeL9MusicalL10E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Technique L9 (requires) Arts sense
    A compositional technique in which a musical theme is repeated with modifications.
  • Theme L9 (requires)
    A compositional technique in which a musical theme is repeated with modifications.
  • Musical L10 (requires)
    A compositional technique in which a musical theme is repeated with modifications.