the music that a composer writes
Composition
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Manuscript
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a document bearing the notation of a composition, normally with the composer's handwritten notation of a composition
Composer
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a person who writes music
Melic composition
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a musical composition relating to song
Op.
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Latin
Opus; a number assigned by the composer or publisher to identify the chronology of the composition or publication of a musica…
Opus
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Latin
a number assigned by the composer or publisher to identify the chronology of the composition or publication of a musical work
Thematic catalogue
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the classification of music under headings which include the opening notes of the composition and/or the notes of the main th…
Commissioned work
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one for which a composer is given a contract
Coda
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Italian
passage ended onto the end of a composition see in Repeats, D.S.,D.C....