Logseq/Entity/Music/Work
Musical Work
- In this garden, Musical Work pages model identifiable compositions, songs, and separately named movements or other parts of a larger composition.
What counts
- A musical work is an abstract composition or song, independent of any one performance, recording, or release.
- A movement may have its own page when it is useful to track or discuss it separately. It remains related to its larger work through
part-of::. - An album is a release or collection of recordings, not a musical work. Model an album under Logseq/Entity/Music/Recording and connect its tracks to their works.
- An arrangement with a distinct identity may have its own work page, with
based-on:: linking to the source work.
Naming and placement
- Place a work under its primary credited Logseq/Entity/Identity as
<Identity>/Music/Work/<Title> when Logseq/Frontmatter/created-by-identities is present. Without a separate credited identity, use Person/<Creator>/Music/Work/<Title>. A recording artist credit alone does not establish authorship of the underlying composition. - For a movement, continue below its parent work with a two-digit position and the movement's title, such as
.../01 Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio. - Use the creator who gives the work its clearest home in the garden; list every creator whose page exists in
created-by::. - Use the work's familiar title as the H1. Keep punctuation and diacritics from the established title.
- Write a sharp or flat in a key as
-sharp or -flat in both the page name and the H1, as Prelude in C-sharp Minor and Elegie in E-flat Minor. In Logseq # starts a tag, and ♯ and ♭ are hard to type into a link.
Relationships
- Use
part-of:: on a movement or section page to link to its parent work. - Use
appears-on:: on a work page to link to a known album recording or release. The album page lists its tracks in order as bullets, linking each work. - Use
based-on:: for an adaptation or arrangement and cover-of:: on a cover recording to link the covered work. - A work page may link to performances and recordings, but those entities do not replace the work page.
- Use
music-form:: to link the Logseq/Entity/Music/Form pages a work belongs to, as music-form:: [[Music/Form/Prelude]].
Examples
Person/Madonna/Music/Work/Vogue is the song; Person/Madonna/Music/Recording/I'm Breathless is its album, whose ordered track list links to Person/Madonna/Music/Work/Vogue.Person/Ludwig van Beethoven/Music/Work/Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor Op. 13 Pathétique/01 Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio is the first movement, nested beneath the sonata.Person/John Cage/Music/Work/4'33" is a complete work with no movement pages required.Person/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Music/Work/Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major K. 488/02 Adagio and .../03 Allegro assai are sibling movements under one concerto.Person/Stevie Nicks/Music/Work/Landslide is the song. A Smashing Pumpkins recording of it is filed under that performer and links to the Stevie Nicks work with cover-of::.
Instance shape
- Start each work page with
logseq-entity:: [[Logseq/Entity/Music/Work]] and one H1 containing the work's familiar title. - Add
created-by:: links when the creator pages exist, and date-created:: when a reliable composition or publication date is known. - Add only relationships that are known and useful; leave unknown movement lists and release associations unstated.
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