Musical Work

• CURIE: gmeow:MusicalWork
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/MusicalWork
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/creative-works
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A work whose primary content is music — the abstract artistic conception independent of any particular notation, performance, or recording. A specialization of gmeow:Work; identity is unaffected by realization mode or notation system (Principles 4, 9, 11).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Work

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:MusicalWork as a specialized kind of gmeow:Work. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Score As Lossy Projection

• Source: slices/extensions/music/examples/score-as-lossy-projection.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-music-examples-score-as-lossy-projection

# --- WORK: the abstract piece, determinate in what it fixes.
ex:nocturne a gmeow:MusicalWork ;
    rdfs:label          "Nocturne in E♭ (worked example)"@en ;
    gmeow:hasDeterminacy gmeow:determinacyCrisp .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Work

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: wd

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for the abstract musical conception — the composition itself, the Work tier, surviving any notation, performance, or recording unchanged (the oral-tradition guarantee).

Avoid when

• Avoid for a notated score or a sound recording (those are gmeow:ScoreEdition / gmeow:Recording at the Manifestation tier) and for a particular performed/notated realization (that is a gmeow:Expression with gmeow:realizationMode).

How to use

• Mint the MusicalWork at the Work tier; hang realizations below with gmeow:realizedThrough and recordings/scores further down — never require a notated form (Principle 9).

Examples

• ex:eroica a gmeow:MusicalWork; gmeow:realizedThrough ex:eroicaScore.