> > Not to mention dangling participles.
>
> Actually, there are no dangling participles in the
> sentence I was talking about :)
I meant to put a few there. :) Must have forgot.
>
> > >In any case, when Jim mentions the coda of
> > > the song, he is clearly referring to the "Bless all the
> > > girls" bit towards the end.
> >
> > If he is referring to that lyric, then I am not one to
> > argue, but I don't think so......the definition of coda is
> > not the last word, but the last set of notes. What exists
> > there at the music level that would have such a feature?
> > Anyone want to share that file somewhere? You must be
> > aware that I did not listen to the song. Disconcerting
> > again?
>
> I was not meaning to refer solely to the lyrics. I was
> merely using them s a signpost to point out the coda part
> of the song. The term "coda" does not refer to the either
> the notes nor the words. It refers to the structure as a
> whole. It's the sort of the music equivalent of saying
> "epilogue."
Okay. Let us agree that he does not mean his favorite passage to be the repetition of "I'll kill you if you don't come back!" and we could shake hands. Because that is as you say, the final structure of the song. Hence I argue that the purist, referring back to the musicality where no words were actually parts of musical movements except in opera, seeks to be pure in the music, calling a musical part a coda, and a structure part as you may call it, an epilogue, and that would be something different than a coda.
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