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offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-10-29 22:49 [#00420955]
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In classical music when someone says like...some symphony
opus number 56...what does that mean? opus...


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-29 22:52 [#00420957]
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i beleive... but i could be wrong

they are just numbers given to works after the composer is
dead.

its in a time order... oldest to newest.

the composers dont name them that... scholars do

i beleive

 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-10-29 22:53 [#00420959]
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so you mean like...say x symphony opus # 30...that same
symphony has 30 opuses? or do they just tack on any old
number?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-10-29 23:03 [#00420963]
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its like the order the composer wrote/released the music

so like, whatever order the peices are written, thats the
opus # they get.

like the first work they ever put out, thats opus #1... and
so forth


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-10-29 23:13 [#00420965]
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oh i see :) thanks

 

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