Score Edition

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

A concrete notated manifestation of a musical work or expression — a printed score, engraving, MusicXML file, MEI document, or any other symbolic edition. Co-equal sibling of gmeow:Recording (Principle 9).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Manifestation

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:ScoreEdition as a specialized kind of gmeow:Manifestation. 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

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: the score is NOT the work — it is one lossy projection of it
# (, , P12). The slice's thesis is "frame-relative musical content; every
# notation is a lossy projection." Here a MusicalWork sits at the head of the WEMI
# spine. A printed gmeow:ScoreEdition (a Manifestation) embodies a notated
# Expression — but the notation FIXES only some musical parameters and DELEGATES
# others to the performer (gmeow:DegreeOfFreedom with determinationDelegatedPerformer).
# Two performed Expressions realize the very same work and agree on everything the
# score fixes (pitch, duration over the 12-EDO gmeow:tuningSystem12EDO frame) yet
# legitimately diverge on timbre and dynamics — the parameters the page never
# carried. That divergence is the proof of loss: the score under-determines the
# work, and the missing information lives in the performance, not the paper.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/music/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

# --- MANIFESTATION: the printed score — a lossy projection of the work.
ex:printedScore a gmeow:ScoreEdition ;
    rdfs:label                 "First printed edition"@en ;
    gmeow:embodies             ex:notatedExpression ;
    gmeow:hasManifestationFormat gmeow:formatPrintedScore .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Manifestation

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for a notated/symbolic edition at the Manifestation tier — a printed score, engraving, MusicXML, or MEI document; the notation sibling of gmeow:Recording.

Avoid when

• Avoid for the abstract composition (gmeow:MusicalWork) and for an audio recording (gmeow:Recording); a score is not privileged over a recording (Principle 9), and notation must never be required of a Work.

How to use

• Link the ScoreEdition to its Expression with gmeow:embodies, set a notated gmeow:hasManifestationFormat, and treat the sheet-music form as a lossy projection of the Work, never its definition.

Examples

• ex:eroicaBreitkopf a gmeow:ScoreEdition; gmeow:embodies ex:eroicaNotatedExpr; gmeow:hasManifestationFormat gmeow:formatPrintedScore.