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ranging from 6 to 22 bars in length, some of which are subdivided into two or three component sections. According to yet another, a prelude and postlude frame three main sections, the first two separated by a short episode, and the second and third by a more extended section divided into five episodes. There is no "
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Opinions about the form differ. According to one view, the work consists of twelve variations: bars 1–22, 23–33, 33–39, 40–46, 47–58, 59–72, 73–85, 86–94, 95–100, 101–117, 118–129, and 130–141. According to another, bars 33/34–46 comprise a single variation, Var. 3, so there are only eleven in all,
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in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in July 1963, and completed the composition in Hollywood, California, on 28 October 1964. It was first performed in Chicago on 17 April 1965, by the
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Although not composed for the purpose, Stravinsky's music was twice choreographed for the
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bars, with each of the three large sections containing four of these three-bar units.
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Index

Variations (Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Craft
Aldous Huxley
John F. Kennedy was assassinated
Variations
New York City Ballet
George Balanchine
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second version
twelve-note row
theme
duodecet
invention


Spies 1965
White 1979
White 1979
Barnes 1966
Anderson 1982
Spies 1965
Kohl 1979–80
Phillips 1984
Straus 2001
Spies 1965
Phillips 1984
White 1979
White 1979

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