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From: James Butrica <jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Re: Latin for jazz

Ah, how often the folks at the Vatican must have wrestled with problems
such as these. (By the way, if there are any official Church documents
condemning the immorality of jazz, they would be worth checking.) Rather
than inventing a neologism, why not exploit what Classical Latin offers and
try "musica extemporalis" or, more subtly, "musica subitaria" (or even just
"subitaria"), meaning extemporized music?

James Lawrence Peter Butrica
Department of Classics
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland  A1C 5S7
(709) 737-7914


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