The title of a composition can be important. It indicates what the composer wanted to express. Although there is quite a bit of swindling going on here. Some titles are only given to a composition later and not even by the composer.I like to play around with a title a bit. I recently wrote 3 compositions for organ manual: a prelude, an interlude and a postlude. Three 'ludes'. In Latin it means "plays". So I called the series 'Ludes' for organ manual. I'm happy with this. Usually I'm just fooling around, but this seems like a serious title. And that on my old day. If only my father could have lived to see this.Have any of you ever come up with a brilliant title?
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I gave my fugue in D the title "Noises in Two Voices": because it has 2 voices and their antics reminded me of Thing One and Thing Two in Dr Suess's stories.
Maybe I should write my symphony no.1 "Are you serious", piano disconcerto no.1 "cover your ears", violin t-concerto "Sturm und drang", tuba concerto "potato salad", viola concerto "French exclamations", lute concerto in 3 movements: pray-lute "opening meditations", inner lute "introspection", and post lute "the mailman". 🤪
I'm not sure if Van Beethoven called his piano concerto "Emperor". Wasn't that done by someone else? Like the "Moonlight" sonata? Even if you give your work a neutral name, the public will come up with a better one. The same goes for sculptures. Rotterdam in The Netherlands got a new statue, a gnome holding a stylized Christmas tree. The Rotterdammers immediately called it the "Buttplug Gnome".