Score Segments

[pvankranenburg]

It would be useful to link a mm:CompositionPart to the corresponding segment of the score.

In MusicMeta there is the mm:CompositionPart class, but there is not an equivalent mm:ScorePart.

There is an mm:ScorePart, but that means something different: one ‘instrument’ part, i.e., a vertical division instead of a horizontal. The term 'part' is used with two different meanings.

This poses me problems. I have Stanzas, which are Segments of a Song, represented as mm:CompositionPart entities. But I cannot link them to the corresponding segment of the score.

This is what I would propose:

• use 'part' for a score-part (i.e. an 'instrument' / 'vertical' divison)
• use 'segment' for a 'horizontal' division like 'movement', 'stanza', etc.
• Rename mm:CompositionPart to mm:CompositionSegment to prevent the confusion.
• Add mm:ScoreSegment to the ontology with subclasses mm:ScoreMovement, mm:ScoreSection, and mm:Stanza.
• Make a link between the CompositionSegment and the ScoreSegment, using mm:isRealisedIn.