Disputatio Formulae:Mozarti operae
Latest comment: abhinc 12 annos by Andrew Dalby
By most musicological lights, Mozart didn't compose any lyric operas. Why does this formula exist? IacobusAmor 13:37, 18 Maii 2011 (UTC)
- To list the items it lists, I guess. If that's a worthwhile job, maybe you'd care to give the formula a better title? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:31, 18 Maii 2011 (UTC)
- Opera lyrica seems to be what Italians call the genre that the rest of the world calls opera. IacobusAmor 14:56, 18 Maii 2011 (UTC)
- So if opera is correct in Latin, you could move it to that ... but it would be ambiguous, because in Latin that would also mean "Works of Mozart". What, then? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:01, 18 Maii 2011 (UTC)
- Operae Wolfgangi Amadei Mozart: Classical Latin opus, -eris 'work'; New Latin opera, -ae 'opera'. IacobusAmor 15:05, 18 Maii 2011 (UTC)
- Seems fine to me. Why not just go ahead ... Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:09, 18 Maii 2011 (UTC)
- Operae Wolfgangi Amadei Mozart: Classical Latin opus, -eris 'work'; New Latin opera, -ae 'opera'. IacobusAmor 15:05, 18 Maii 2011 (UTC)
- So if opera is correct in Latin, you could move it to that ... but it would be ambiguous, because in Latin that would also mean "Works of Mozart". What, then? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:01, 18 Maii 2011 (UTC)
- Opera lyrica seems to be what Italians call the genre that the rest of the world calls opera. IacobusAmor 14:56, 18 Maii 2011 (UTC)