Parts Relationship Type

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1 Description
2 Link Phrases
3 Attributes
- 3.1 “start date”
- 3.2 “end date”
4 Guidelines
5 Examples

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This relationship type belongs to the Alternative Version Relationship Class.

Description

This indicates that a work is made up of multiple parts (e.g. an orchestral suite broken into movements)

Link Phrases

Work part of: Work
Work has parts: Work

Attributes

“start date”

There is no guideline yet for how the begin date fields might be used.

“end date”

There is no guideline yet for how the end date fields might be used.

Guidelines

This relationship should only be used for works where the composer split a work into multiple parts, not where a performer merely performed part of a work (often described as an excerpt, intro, or conclusion), instead see the 'partial' attribute of Performance Relationship Type.

For example, The Planets suite by Gustav Holst is broken into seven parts. Each counts as a Work of its own (e.g. Mars, the Bringer of War), and is part of the aggregate Work. The Planets, Op. 32: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (conclusion) is merely a partial recording of a discrete Work, and doesn’t count as a work on its own.

Works for a part which has no recording in MusicBrainz should be kept to a minimum. Some examples where this might be necessary:

Accurately credit an artist. Artist A wrote the lyrics for part I and artist B wrote the lyrics for part II, even though there are no recordings of part I or part II by themselves.
Provide a complete list of parts. Parts I and IV may have recordings, but parts II-III might not.

Recordings which comprise multiple parts should be linked to all of their component Works. Do not create additional works for every combination of parts. An artist records Parts I and II on one track and parts III and IV on another. Do not create a work for parts I+II combined. Just link the Recordings to the Works for Part I and Part II.