Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

popular English nursery rhyme
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q4043768
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Summary

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,328 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's composer is recorded as James Hook[5].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's composer is recorded as Samuel Arnold[6].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's illustrator is recorded as George Bickham the Younger[7].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's illustrator is recorded as George Bickham the Younger[8].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's genre is nursery rhyme[9].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's Commons category is recorded as Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary[10].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's country of origin is recorded as Kingdom of Great Britain[12].
  • 1800 marks the founding of Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary[13].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary was released on 1744[14].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's has edition or translation is recorded as Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary[15].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's main subject is garden[16].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's main subject is gardener[17].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's main subject is flower[18].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's main subject is contrarian[19].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's main subject is Mary Contrary[20].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's work available at URL is recorded as https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/74/nursery-rhymes-and-traditional-poems/5284/mary-mary-quite-contrary/[21].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's work available at URL is recorded as https://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2016/01/unique-copy-of-nancy-cocks-song-book-1744-acquired/[22].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's described at URL is recorded as http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/OO2342.html[23].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's described by source is recorded as The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes[24].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's described by source is recorded as Infant Inſtitutes[25].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's published in is recorded as Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book[26].
  • Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's published in is recorded as Nancy Cock’s Song‐book, for All Little Miſſes and Maſters[27].

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[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 76577767-c8f1-402d-a9e6-a26bccfea989[29]

Body

Publication

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary was released on 1744[14]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[11]. Its genre is nursery rhyme[9].

Subject and Themes

Main subjects include garden[16], gardener[17], flower[18], contrarian[19], and Mary Contrary[20].

Why It Matters

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ranks in the top 1% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,328 views/month).[2] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

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] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. 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.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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