Major-General's Song

song from the opera Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q6737996
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Major-General's Song

Summary

Major-General's Song is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,075 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Major-General's Song's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Major-General's Song is part of The Pirates of Penzance[4].
  • Major-General's Song is part of Q&A[5].
  • Major-General's Song's title is recorded as I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General[6].
  • Major-General's Song's form of creative work is recorded as song[7].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[8]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 752105c6-146e-4360-9200-425c8265af18[9]

Body

Publication

Part of include The Pirates of Penzance[4], a dramatico-musical work[10] and Q&A[5], a Star Trek episode[11], directed by Mark Pellington[12].

Why It Matters

Major-General's Song ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,075 views/month).[2]

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] . memory-alpha.fandom.com. memory-alpha.fandom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Retrieved . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [8] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [9] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [10] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [11] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [12] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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