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While the opus numbering system has long been the standard manner in which individual compositions are identified and referenced, it is far from universal, and there have been many different applications of the system. Very few composers gave opus numbers to all of their published works without exception:
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
This page contains naming conventions for music-related articles, covering both classical musical works and popular bands, albums and songs. The first step for disambiguating classical compositions is rather a reference to their composer, while popular music is rather disambiguated by a type qualifier.
This is a list of musical genres within the context of classical music, organized according to the corresponding periods in which they arose or became common. Various terms can be used to classify a classical music composition, mainly including genre, form , compositional technique and style.
Series IV: Songs for solo voice (Lieder) Note however that some of Schubert's song cycles contain both Lieder and part songs. The list below includes the following information: D – the catalogue number assigned by Otto Erich Deutsch or NSE authorities; Genre – the musical genre to which the piece belongs; Title – the title of the work
This listing uses the traditional opus numbers where they apply; other works are identified by numbers from the catalogues of Maurice J. E. Brown (B), Krystyna Kobylańska (KK), Józef Michał Chomiński (A, C, D, E, P, S), and the Chopin National Edition (WN). The last opus number Chopin used was 65, that allocated to the Cello Sonata in G ...
Of the two sonatas published by Chrysander as Opus 1 Sonata I, this one (Sonata I b) is the one in Walsh's original edition (where it is called Sonata I). 360: Recorder G minor c. 1712 1732 Opus 1 No. 2 361: Violin A major c. 1725–26 1732 Opus 1 No. 3 The only violin sonata to have been published exactly as written by Handel. 362: Recorder A ...
Title page of Bach's Opus 1 (Clavier-Übung I, 1731), the only time he seems to have used an opus number. Apart from indicating his first published keyboard composition as Opus 1, Bach did not use opus numbers. Lists following publication chronologies are for example implied in the first list in Bach's obituary, and BG numbers (within the BGA ...