Klarinet Archive - Posting 000334.txt from 1996/12

From: "Elizabeth R. Goeke 99" <goeke@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Opus
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 17:13:52 -0500

Guys,
This is simple. Take out your copy of Webster's and look under 'opus'
which will tell you: o'pus, n; pl. opera. A work; esp., a musical
composition. If you then look under opera, there are two definitions. One
is: pl of opus and the other is what we usually consider when we say opera,
ie lots of sung words to music that goes on for a considerable length of time
in strange costumes (and no, I do like opera, in fact I'm writing one...).
elizabeth
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knows a path he has traced and retraced, while a
listener is confronted by the same work as one is in
the woods by a plant he has never seen before.'
- John Cage

Elizabeth Goeke
Middlebury College
Box 2804
Middlebury, VT 05753
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