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Elaboration may refer to:

Music

• Elaboration, a type of variation (music)
• Prolongation, a central principle in the music-analytic methodology of Schenkerian analysis
• Elaborating instruments, or panerusan in Indonesian gamelan music

Albums

• Elaborations, a 1982 Arthur Blythe album
• Elaboration of Particulars, a 2021 album by Tony Oxley and Alan Davie
• Elaborations of Carbon, the 2002 debut album by the Yob (band)

Other uses

• Progressive elaboration, a process for creating a work breakdown structure in project management
• Conceptual elaboration, the Buddhist concept of conceptual proliferation
• Elaboration likelihood model, a psychological theory on the change of attitudes
• Elaboration principle, a process of recruiting new members into a group