> > 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.
>
> Yes. That repetition is not the coda (or, at best, is
> merely the end of the coda).
>
> > 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.
>
> Man, that's ... a hell of a tricky sentence. :) I think
> you're trying to argue a distinction between lyrics and
> melody here. The term "coda" refers to both of them.
> It's like saying "verse" or "chorus." The term includes
> both the music be played and the words being sung.
I know how to solve this. Where's Beethoven?
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