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The Linked Irish Traditional Music Ontology, an extension of FRBRoo, is designed to represent contemporary and historical Irish traditional music practice, documentation, and performance. It was developed in 2019 for use at the Irish Traditional Music Archive, Dublin.
Author: Lynnsey Weissenberger
Agent: Irish Traditional Music Archive
License: CC BY 4.O – Attribution 4.0 International
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A poem is a subclass of Text Component as it can relate a poem to a particular song.
Example: She Moved Through The Fair, by Padraic Colum, as poem (lyrics) associated with the song of the same name.
Band is a formal musical group of more than one person. The band has a recognised group name separate from the combined names of the individual musicians comprising it.
Example: Altan, The Chieftains, Danú
Set Dance class refers to the group set dances, not the solo set dances performed by step dancers. For solo set dance, refer to the instance “Set Dance” of class T1 Melodic Category (all instances are found in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Types Thesaurus – https://itma.ie/litmus/tune-types#IrishTraditionalMusicTunesThesaurus)
Examples: Caledonian set, Sliabh Luchra set
Music is the class representative of the conceptual, highest level of a tune or song, or other musical piece. It is the sum of all versions and variants.
Example: “The Blackbird” as a conceptual thing, incorporating all melodic derivatives such as those in song form, instrumental slow air form, various dance tunes and melodic derivatives.
