Variations op.36 ('Enigma'): thoughts in season.

The article discusses Variations op.36 ('Enigma'): thoughts in season, which includes Elgar's Variations on an original theme, opus 36 usually if not quite properly, known as the Enigma Variations were the subject of a short Cambridge Music Handbook published in the work's centenary year, 1999. Exam...

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Publicado en:Musical Times Vol. 162; no. 1955; pp. 3 - 17
Autor principal: RUSHTON, JULIAN
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Publicado: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Summer2021
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Sumario:The article discusses Variations op.36 ('Enigma'): thoughts in season, which includes Elgar's Variations on an original theme, opus 36 usually if not quite properly, known as the Enigma Variations were the subject of a short Cambridge Music Handbook published in the work's centenary year, 1999. Examined sketches and drafts then in the British Museum, and reviewed some of the solutions to the puzzle Elgar seems to have posed, but never resolved.