{"id":17566,"date":"2022-07-25T13:38:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=169288"},"modified":"2022-07-25T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:04:08","slug":"what-is-an-opus","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/what-is-an-opus\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an opus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The word \u2018opus\u2019 is Latin for \u2018work\u2019. When it comes to music, the term is included, along with a number, within the titles of individual compositions (or groups of compositions) to help identify a particular piece of work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, Beethoven\u2019s Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major is identified as being linked to the German composer\u2019s Moonlight Sonata<\/a><\/strong> by the pieces\u2019 opus number \u2013 Opus 27, Number 1 and 2, respectively. The opus number pairs the two pieces together, while the following numbers establish the order of the compositions. Think of it as being similar to a book series with numbered volumes.<\/p>\n\n<p>Opus is often abbreviated to \u2018op\u2019 within the title of a piece, and it should be noted that \u2013 due to the haphazard approach of many composers and publishers when it came to using opus numbers \u2013 the numbers themselves do not necessarily correlate to the chronological order in which the composers\u2019 work was written or published.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image by Getty Images<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Music Magazine Published: Monday, 25 July 2022 at 12:00 am The word \u2018opus\u2019 is Latin for \u2018work\u2019. When it comes to music, the term is included, along with a number, within the titles of individual compositions (or groups of compositions) to help identify a particular piece of work. For example, Beethoven\u2019s Piano Sonata […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17567,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/07\/what-is-an-opus.jpg",1028,870,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/07\/what-is-an-opus-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/07\/what-is-an-opus-300x254.jpg",300,254,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/07\/what-is-an-opus-768x650.jpg",768,650,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/07\/what-is-an-opus-1024x867.jpg",800,677,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/07\/what-is-an-opus.jpg",1028,870,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/07\/what-is-an-opus.jpg",1028,870,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By BBC Music Magazine Published: Monday, 25 July 2022 at 12:00 am The word \u2018opus\u2019 is Latin for \u2018work\u2019. When it comes to music, the term is included, along with a number, within the titles of individual compositions (or groups of compositions) to help identify a particular piece of work. For example, Beethoven\u2019s Piano Sonata…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/17566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}