Classical Music Navigator

Structured data about classical composers and their network of influence

0. Disclaimer

This is a non-commercial site. The information contained in this site has been collected from several sources and its accuracy cannot be guaranteed. No copyright has been intentionally violated. If you feel a copyright has been violated please contact me immediately and the material will be removed

1. Introduction

This is a data set of classical composers and their network of influence as originally described by Charles H. Smith et al. in the original Classical Music Navigator site [1]. A small ad-hoc Classical Music Navigator ontology [2] is used to describe influence concepts and the Music Ontology [3] is used to describe composers.

2. Data

This modest data set contains around 10k triples.

In this data set you find statements like the following:

     @prefix : <http://purl.org/NET/classicalmusicnav#> .
     @prefix cmno: <http://purl.org/ontology/classicalmusicnav#> .
     @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
     @prefix mo: <http://purl.org/ontology/mo/> .
     @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
     @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
    
    :CAGE     a mo:Composer;
         cmno:hasInfluenced :BOUL2,
                :CRUM,
                :FELD,
                :GLAS,
                :HARR2,
                :KAGE,
                :LUTO,
                :MADE,
                :OLIV,
                :REIC1,
                :RILE,
                :STOC,
                :TAKE;
         cmno:influencedBy :BOUL2,
                :COWE,
                :FELD,
                :HARR2,
                :IVES,
                :SATI,
                :SCHO,
                :VARE,
                :WEBE2;
         mo:musicbrainz <http://musicbrainz.org/artist/76325a9d-6c25-4649-96b1-84e9b99d6b4b>;
         = <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Cage>;
         foaf:birthday "1912-92";
         foaf:name "John Cage" .

Note we have provided links to Musicbrainz identifiers and DBpedia where possible.

3. Using this resource

This service exposes a SPARQL end-point, available at http://dbtune.org/cmn/sparql/. There is also a small web interface available at http://dbtune.org/cmn/store/.

Example SPARQL query. (This link loads a query into the query editor, but you will still need to press the query button on the right of the editor to run the query.)

Composers who influenced John Cage

The service also exposes a directory index:

All composers

4. RDF dump

The RDF dump is available for download. This link is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

A. References

Original Classical Music Navigator