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What is the opposite of a Magnum Opus?

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Minimum Opus? I'm not sure about the grammar.

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Minimum Opus?
I'm not sure about the grammar.
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[nq:1]Minimum Opus?[/nq]
Minimum Bill the Cat ... Aack!
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[nq:1]???[/nq]
Depending on the medium, perhaps a "scribble", a "potboiler", or...hmm, I can't quite think of a precise musical analogue.

Evan Kirshenbaum + HP Laboratories >"The Dynamics of Interbeing and
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[nq:1]Cacophony?[/nq]
I was going for "triviality" (which, indeed, works in general) or "work of no great import". There's a musical word that's on the tip of my tongue, but it's not getting any further.

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Thus spake Arcadian Rises:
[nq:1]Cacophony?[/nq]
Muzac.

Simon R. Hughes
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[nq:2]???[/nq]
[nq:1]Depending on the medium, perhaps a "scribble", a "potboiler", or...hmm, I can't quite think of a precise musical analogue.[/nq]
How about 'albumleaf'?
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[nq:2]Depending on the medium, perhaps a "scribble", a "potboiler", or...hmm, I can't quite think of a precise musical analogue.[/nq]
[nq:1]How about 'albumleaf'?[/nq]
Or, sticking with foreign languages, "albumblatt." Ask R. Schumann.

I vote for "parvum opus," but perhaps I'm being too literal.

Bob Lieblich
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Robert Lieblich filted:
[nq:1]I vote for "parvum opus," but perhaps I'm being too literal.[/nq]
That's where I was going, but there's some kind of bug that won't let me reply to Evan's earlier post...here's what I had written a couple of hours ago:

Evan Kirshenbaum filted:
[nq:2]Cacophony?[/nq]
[nq:1]I was going for "triviality" (which, indeed, works in general) or "work o
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[nq:2]???[/nq]
[nq:1]Depending on the medium, perhaps a "scribble", a "potboiler", or...hmm, I can't quite think of a precise musical analogue.[/nq]
Divertimento?

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