In one part of this work, Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage overture is quoted to depict a trip to New Zealand.
In one part of this work, Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage overture is quoted to depict a trip to New Zealand. This work's opening section contains opening and ending parts comprised of halting phases in G minor, while the rest of the theme is continuous in G major. The finale of this work was made 100 bars longer than intended with the addition of an organ part, while a section of this work was meant to depict an ecstatic bulldog in the fifth bar after it had fallen into a river in the first bar. The woodwinds depict a man's (*) stutter in another section of this work, while its most famous section was inspired by an argument about "Soneta Pathetique" with Augustus Jaeger. A hidden well-known melody to which this entire work is set, which some have suggested is the poem "Auld Lang Syne", gives this work its name. "Dorabella" and "Nimrod" appears in, for 10 points, what series of musical cryptograms about the friends of Edward Elgar?
In one part of this work, Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage overture is quoted to depict a trip to New Zealand.
{Enigma Variations} [or {Variations} on an {Original} Theme; accept “***” or “{Variation XIII}” before “{G minor};” {Editor's Note}: {How} in the {Christ does} one “accept '***' ???????”]