Composer Relationship Type

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1 Description
2 Link Phrases
3 Attributes
4 Guidelines
5 Examples

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Relationship Classes > Composition Relationship Class > Composer Relationship Type

This relationship type belongs to the Composition Relationship Class.

Description

This relationship is used to link an entity to the artist who composed the music.

Link Phrases

Release was composed by Artist

Artist composed Release

Recording was composed by Artist

Artist composed Recording

Attributes

“start date”

This indicates the earliest known date when the composer started to work.

“end date”

This indicates the latest known date when the composer worked on this piece of music.

“additional”

This indicates that most of the work of composing is attributed to a different composer.

Guidelines

"The music" in the context of this advanced relationship should be interpreted as the creation of the sequence of notes used to make a tune. The lyrics are handled separately, by the lyricist relationship type. Once a tune is written, it might well be arranged or rearranged (including adding new notes), but this doesn't count as writing "the music"; instead, this is covered by the arranger relationship type.