Klarinet Archive - Posting 000319.txt from 1996/12
From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com> Subj: Re: Opus Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 09:54:09 -0500
(I didn't want to re-quote the subject that Joerg Peltzer wrote, but anyway):
Jorge wrote:
> but anyone really ever came across that Expression in a Concert Program?
referring to opera being the plural of opus. I haven't, but seriously, when
I've been putting together the Composition Database, I often get citations
reading "op. 100-102". I've always imagined that to read "opus 100-102".
I'm now changing my internal "pronouncer" to read that as "opera 100-102".
Mark Charette (who should really be writing Yet Another 3D Rendering Program
but who is really bored today).
charette@-----.com but NOT Klarinet
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