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Old MacDonald Had a Farm

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Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Summary

Old MacDonald Had a Farm is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,186 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's composer is recorded as traditional[4].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's genre is children's song[5].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's Commons category is recorded as Old MacDonald Had a Farm[6].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's country of origin is recorded as Kingdom of England[8].
  • 1706 marks the founding of Old MacDonald Had a Farm[9].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm was published on 1706[10].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's lyricist is recorded as traditional[11].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's main subject is animal sound[12].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's main subject is farm[13].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's main subject is rural life[14].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's described at URL is recorded as http://www.balladindex.org/Ballads/R457.html[15].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's described at URL is recorded as http://www.balladindex.org/Ballads/Gard013.html[16].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's described by source is recorded as Q55075031[17].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's published in is recorded as Cedarmont Kids[18].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's published in is recorded as Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy[19].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's published in is recorded as The Christian Science Monitor[20].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm'}[21].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Old McDonald Had a Farm'}[22].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's has characteristic is recorded as children's song[23].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's has characteristic is recorded as traditional folk song[24].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's has characteristic is recorded as cumulative song[25].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's different from is recorded as The Farmer's Boy[26].
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm's derivative work is recorded as Q43570060[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: 9e9fd817-8d05-4efd-968f-327d0dc3bab9[29]

Body

Publication

Old MacDonald Had a Farm was released on 1706[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[7]. Its genre is children's song[5].

Subject and Themes

Main subjects include animal sound[12], farm[13], and rural life[14].

Why It Matters

Old MacDonald Had a Farm ranks in the top 3% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,186 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

Kingdom of England public domain

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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . archive.org. archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . archive.org. archive.org. Provenance: 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 sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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