Favorite name for a musical work

[Sergeant Rock]

I've made the Big Time, and in the company of Rued!

You'll be issued your short pants momentarily. Wear those high waters with pride!

Sarge

[The new erato]

Quite a few Zappa titles suit this thread....

"Dance of the Just Plain Folks"
"My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama"
"Seven Types of Industrial Pollution"
"The Voice of Cheese"
"The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression"
"Canard du Jour"
"It Ain't Necessarily the St James Infirmary"
"The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue"
"Amnesia vivace"

Brown shoes don't make it
America drinks and goes home
Peaches and regalia
Son of Suzy Creamchees

the possibilities are endless.....

[Drasko]

Les Barricades mystérieuses - F.Couperin

Tropismes pour des amours imaginaires - Jacques Ibert

[TheGSMoeller]

Les Cyclopes by Rameau.
Ein Heldenleben because I love saying it, just rolls off the tongue.

And the greatest title ever, even outside of music... A Midsummer Night's Dream.

[DavidW]

Kyjo, Vandermolen: cool lists.   I especially like the Angel of Light.

[Brahmsian]

Another cool one I enjoy is The Trout

[Brian]

Another cool one I enjoy is The Trout

One of my friends had that piece ruined for her forever by a guy who decided to put on a "Trout" quintet CD and then over the course of the piece he'd say things like "see now he's tugging trying to get the fish back in the boat!" complete with full elaborate pantomiming of the act of catching a fish for 30 minutes.

[Brahmsian]

One of my friends had that piece ruined for her forever by a guy who decided to put on a "Trout" quintet CD and then over the course of the piece he'd say things like "see now he's tugging trying to get the fish back in the boat!" complete with full elaborate pantomiming of the act of catching a fish for 30 minutes.

I now wish Schubert would have embarked on a multiple piano quintet project with varying instrumentation for each work, on a series of freshwater fish.   

[Lisztianwagner]

Some Strausses' works:

An der schönen blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube)
G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods)
Wo die Zitronen blühen (Where the Lemons Blossom)
Nordseebilder (North Sea Pictures)
Trau, schau, wem! (Take Care in Whom You Trust!)
Seid umschlungen, Millionen! (Be Embraced, You Millions!)
Unter Donner und Blitz (Under Thunder and Lightning)
Sphären-Klänge (Music of the Spheres)

[North Star]

One of my friends had that piece ruined for her forever by a guy who decided to put on a "Trout" quintet CD and then over the course of the piece he'd say things like "see now he's tugging trying to get the fish back in the boat!" complete with full elaborate pantomiming of the act of catching a fish for 30 minutes.

This is priceless! 

[Todd]

Re: Zappa

the possibilities are endless.....

Indeed.  I'm somewhat partial to Frogs With Dirty Little Lips

[Mirror Image]

I always liked the title (K)ein Sommernachtstraum. Apparently, this translates to Not Midsummer Night or something along these lines.

[springrite]

Thirteen Ways to Describe the Rain


And one of my not-so-great works:
Fantasy of an Incompetent Composer in B flat for Unaccomplished Pianists

[Madiel]

I don't know if I can claim it a favourite, but I am definitely fascinated by a Holmboe piece that I'm not sure there's any recording of.

It's called Musik for fugle og frøer (Music for Birds and Frogs).  And the original version is for 2 flutes and 16 bassoons...

[kyjo]

Kyjo, Vandermolen: cool lists.   I especially like the Angel of Light.

Yeah, I like Rautavaara's musical titles a lot. Others beside Angel of Light include the Double Bass Concerto Angel of Dusk, Cantus Articus, Isle of Bliss, PC 3 Gift of Dreams and Symphony 6 Vincentiana.

Another one that comes to mind is Rangstrom's Symphony no. 3 Song under the Stars.

[Rinaldo]

Einstein on the Beach

Frounberg's What Did the Sirens Sing, as Ulysses Sailed by?, both a name and a warning.

And my personal favourite, Tristan Perich's lovely qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq.

[Madiel]

With that instrumentation, there does not need to be a recording to imagine what it sounds like.

Well exactly! That's one reason I think it's such a good title. The title + knowing the instrumentation is enough to create an aural image.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Mozart's K231 B flat major canon "Leck mich im Arsch".

[Sergeant Rock]

I always liked the title (K)ein Sommernachtstraum. Apparently, this translates to Not Midsummer Night or something along these lines.

"Not a summer night's dream"

Sarge

[Cato]

Somehow I missed this topic?!

The easy answer: the works of Karl Henning!

e.g.

Radiant Maples
Blue Shamrock
Starlings on the Rooftop
Heedless Watermelon (all-around fave)
and
I See People Walking Around Like Trees