Elaboration

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