Talk:Opus number

message: Oeuvre currently redirects here.  While oeuvre literally means "work", just as opus does, my impression is that oeuvre usually refers to the collective works of an artist, while opus is more commonly reserved for an individual work.  I wouldn't claim to know for certain, however, and wouldn't have enough to add to the Oeuvre page if it were to be created.
But to those more knowledgable on the subject: should there be a mention that the collected opuses of an artist are known as his oeuvre (and not, say, as his opera, which is the Latin plural of opus but means something entirely different)?  Or is there a more correct term that I'm unaware of?--Severinus 17:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the redirect to refer to work of art, which at least has the benefit of not limiting itself to music. There doesn't seem to be any really good target. Perhaps a disambiguation page would be more appropriate? Christopher Parham (talk) 20:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should oeuvre redirect here? 

message: How do Opus numbers work if there are multiple arrangements of the same piece? For instance, say there's a Quartet, but there's three versions of it, one for String Quartet, one for Brass Quartet, and one for Woodwind Quartet. Other than the different instrumentations, the pieces are exactly the same. How do Opus numbers work in this case? My first thought is that they might be considered "No." in the Opus, but that wouldn't make sense. Wouldn't that suggest each is a different piece within the work? I'm asking because a friend of mine was asking how my own compositions would be cataloged, and this problem has come up. Stenir (talk) 05:16, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Often arrangements are given a letter (opus 1a), but I don't think there's a single standard practice, while the use of letter suffixes can also mean other things (Schoenberg piano pieces opus 33a and 33b are two piano pieces, but neither are arrangements.) Schissel | Sound the Note! 23:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about arrangements? 

message: This came up awhile back, and will continue to do so, I don't doubt.  At least one edition of Carl Czerny's second piano sonata - the one, moreover, scanned in to IMSLP - has the "wrong" opus number.  At least, I think it does.   The number printed on the image page disagrees with the "opus 13" that's been attached to the work everywhere else.   Does this mean that the work has been published with two opus numbers - not unknown, there are well-known examples, several of them... - or that one of them is a typo? How does one determine which answer is true?
Another, related after a fashion... when a composer, like Franz Krommer, has so many works that have the same opus number (probably different publishers...)- let's suppose the composer is better-known and that a work-article about a work by the composer is written - should one encourage using the (much less ambiguous) cataloguing numbers (Padrta in Krommer's case) in the body of such articles? (E.g., staying with Krommer, opus 96 was assigned, by Krommer or by publishers?, to a string trio in F from 1818, and also a quartet for flute and strings in F, published the next year. His cataloguer in the 20th century, K. Padrta, assigns P XI:I to the trio, while the other op. 96 is either a misprint for op. 94 also in C, P IX:18 (94 is - by the way - also the opus number given a set of piano waltzes, P XVIII:2), or is P IX:20. Schissel | Sound the Note! 23:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What constitutes verifying an opus number? 

message: Someone's using the term "opera numbers", but it's only ever been, to my knowledge, "opus numbers".  The word 'opus' is used adjectivally in this sense (Q. What sort of number is it? A. It's an opus number), and adjectives are indeclinable in English.  Hence, "What sort of numbers are these?  They're opus numbers". 
The plural of the noun 'opus' is usually 'opuses', but it can be 'opera'. 
I'm changing all 'opera numbers' back to 'opus numbers'. --  Jack of Oz  ... speak! ...  10:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Plural of "opus number" is "opus numbers", not "opera numbers"

message: The capitalization of opus is inconsistent in this article. Is there justification for the capitalization? Ponydepression (talk) 02:30, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The article basically follows WP:OPUS. When it's used to denote a specific work, e.g. "Op. 61" or "Opus 61", it's capitalised. In running text, "he did not assign an opus number", it's not. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:15, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! I will correct two instances, in the first sentences of paragraphs one and two, since they are not referring to a specific work. If I misunderstood, please feel free to revert. Ponydepression (talk) 20:00, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization