a number assigned by the composer or publisher to identify the chronology of the composition or publication of a musical work
Opus
Language: Latin
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Quintus
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the fifth voice in a sixteenth century composition having five or more vocal parts, sometimes a 'descant' or 'countermelody'…
Perfectus
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Latin
intervals of a unison, octave, fourth, and fifth when they are exactly in tune and neither augmented nor diminished
WoW
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German
work without an opus number,indicating works that were either unpublished or were not assigned an opus number by the composer
Biwa
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a short necked Japanese lute, used in the seventh century in gagaku, with a cranked neck. played with an oversized plectrum.…
Manuscript
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a document bearing the notation of a composition, normally with the composer's handwritten notation of a composition
Pes
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Latin
the first section of a canso
Linea
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Latin
a stave line