[Data-modeling] Songs as Written Works

[Christopher R. Maden]

I wanted to capture the fact that the Tori Amos song “Yes, Anastasia” is
about Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov using the Subject property of the
Written Work type.

Unfortunately, treating song lyrics as a poem causes a bunch of
redundancy with the properties of Composition.

<URL: https://www.freebase.com/view/en/yes_anastasia >

Should the Composition Lyricist property delegate to Written Work
Author?  The lyrics of a composition are really a form of poem; this
will allow us to add the Written Work type to instances of Composition
without causing redundancy.  (It also gives us somewhere to put the
language values from MusicBrainz, if Metaweb ever renews the import of
that data.)

~Chris
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