Comments on: Varying

By: JonJ

JonJ — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:21:10 +0000

I would call the passage you refer to a bridge between the theme and the first variation. But I wouldn’t swear to it.

By: John

John — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:20:21 +0000

the four most common ones that i’ve heard/used are Prok, Rach, Shost/Shosty and Tchaik. (now we just need a russian composer whose name starts with a Q)

i’ve also heard “wolfy” for mozart. …might want confirmation before putting it on the list

By: Zoltan

Zoltan — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:13:35 +0000

“Rach” for Rachmaninoff is an easy one to guess.
A more curious one is for Beethoven. Since I would call Bruckner’s 9th as “B9″, Beethoven’s cannot be B9 so it became “Bee9″ for me.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:10:55 +0000

Nice! I want more abbreviations… I’m going to start mentally collecting all these short versions of composer names and stick ‘em in a post…

By: Zoltan

Zoltan — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:53:46 +0000

Here’s my crazy abbreviation: since DSCH stands for Shostakovich, coming from the German spelling “Schostakowitsch”, I use the same for Tchaikovsky: TSCH standing for “Tschaikowski”.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:17:07 +0000

Re the challenge of abbreviation: “Tchaik” has been the long-standing solution in my neck of the woods, as in “Let’s go and hear the XSO play Tchaik 4 tomorrow night.”