jig

folk dance
Thing musical_form Q1079270
jig
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jig

Summary

jig is a musical form[1]. jig draws 271 Wikipedia views per month (musical_form category, ranking #22 of 112).[2]

Key Facts

  • jig's video is recorded as Swallowtail Jig - Irish Fiddle Tune!.webm[3].
  • jig's image is recorded as HaymakersJig.jpg[4].
  • jig's instance of is recorded as musical form[5].
  • jig's instance of is recorded as music genre[6].
  • jig's instance of is recorded as type of dance[7].
  • jig's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85070525[8].
  • jig's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 15582340x[9].
  • jig's subclass of is recorded as Baroque dance[10].
  • jig's subclass of is recorded as Irish folk dance[11].
  • jig's subclass of is recorded as Scottish folk dance[12].
  • jig's subclass of is recorded as folk dance music[13].
  • jig's Commons category is recorded as Jigs (dance)[14].
  • jig's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[15].
  • jig's country of origin is recorded as Ireland[16].
  • jig's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 65516[17].
  • jig's start time is recorded as +1600-00-00T00:00:00Z[18].
  • jig's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bpgf[19].
  • jig's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20].
  • jig's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/jig-dance[21].
  • jig's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/jigg[22].
  • jig's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Jig'}[23].
  • jig's uses is recorded as Arcangelo Corelli[24].
  • jig's uses is recorded as Antonio Vivaldi[25].
  • jig's uses is recorded as Jean-Philippe Rameau[26].
  • jig's uses is recorded as Johann Sebastian Bach[27].

Why It Matters

jig draws 271 Wikipedia views per month (musical_form category, ranking #22 of 112).[2] jig has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] jig is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . 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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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