cantus firmus

pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition
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cantus firmus

Summary

cantus firmus is a musical concept[1]. It draws 158 Wikipedia views per month (musical_concept category, ranking #45 of 193).[2]

Key Facts

  • cantus firmus's instance of is recorded as musical concept[3].
  • cantus firmus's instance of is recorded as musical-structural concept[4].
  • cantus firmus's instance of is recorded as role[5].
  • cantus firmus's GND ID is recorded as 4147257-3[6].
  • cantus firmus's subclass of is recorded as cantus[7].
  • cantus firmus's subclass of is recorded as theme[8].
  • cantus firmus's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 64717[9].
  • cantus firmus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03cw9y[10].
  • cantus firmus's facet of is recorded as polyphony[11].
  • cantus firmus's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0087964[12].
  • cantus firmus's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000309448[13].
  • cantus firmus's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/cantus-firmus[14].
  • cantus firmus's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2042411[15].
  • cantus firmus's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as cantus[16].
  • cantus firmus's Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID is recorded as 1558[17].
  • cantus firmus's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3883072[18].
  • cantus firmus's Hrvatska enciklopedija ID is recorded as 10693[19].
  • cantus firmus's Lex ID is recorded as cantus_firmus[20].
  • cantus firmus's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07048968-n[21].
  • cantus firmus's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as cantus-firmus[22].

Why It Matters

cantus firmus draws 158 Wikipedia views per month (musical_concept category, ranking #45 of 193).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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