{"id":268978,"date":"2025-07-22T11:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccb.pt\/evento\/conferencia-variacoes-sobre-a-variacao-com-paulo-ferreira-de-castro\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:02:55","slug":"conferencia-variacoes-sobre-a-variacao-com-paulo-ferreira-de-castro","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ccb.pt\/en\/evento\/conferencia-variacoes-sobre-a-variacao-com-paulo-ferreira-de-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"Confer\u00eancia &#8211; Varia\u00e7\u00f5es sobre a Varia\u00e7\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u00abvariations\u00bb refers both to a compositional technique cultivated across different contexts and musical styles, and to a musical genre in its own right, based on that same technique. At its origin, the art of variation consists of a play between repetition and difference, rooted in ancient rhetorical principles designed to reinforce and diversify expression \u2014 in common language, the art of \u00absaying the same thing in other words.\u00bb In a specifically musical sense, the principle of variation has inspired composers of all eras, fostering the invention of ever-new formulations of a single musical idea. 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