Instead, his role is to create, or at least seem to create, inventive variations that lead the listener through a series of thematic transformations.

Imperial images in particular were subject to inventive variations, as in two portraits of the Qianlong Emperor, who reigned from 1736 to 1796.

"King A" is an inventive if slightly preachy variation on the legend of King Arthur.

Here the room itself functions like one of the Bechers' earlier grids, establishing an eerie balance between stylized repetition and inventive variation.

One plays inventive variations on Mondrian's "Victory Boogie Woogie."

The music is a set of inventive variations on a wistful John Dowland song, though the theme for variation comes, unconventionally, at the end, not the beginning.

The Bagatelle is a waltz in a typical sectioned dance form, with repeated sections given inventive variation.

A color "gallery" shows inventive variations on classical forms.

Shabtai conveys this sense, with endlessly inventive variations, through images of insulation and imprisonment.

More than the surrounding movements, it creates an unusual atmosphere and leads the listener through a landscape of inventive variations.