Incipit
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incipit-178-8919598
title:
Incipit
text:
The incipit of a text is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label. In a musical composition, an incipit is an initial sequence of notes, having the same purpose. The word incipit comes from Latin and means "it begins". Its counterpart taken from the ending of the text is the explicit. Before the development of titles, texts were often referred to by their incipits, as with for example Agnus Dei. During the medieval period in Europe, incipits were often written in a diffe
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
First few words of a text used instead of a title
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incipit
date created:
2004-09-02T21:23:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T12:44:54Z
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