Enhedu Dictionary of Music

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The Enhedu knowledge base encompasses 2+1 integrated dictionaries:
- Music: Theory & Instruments;
- Musician: Musicians, Compositions, Schools, Works and Albums;
- Wordnet+ Semantic English Dictionary (integrated with AI platforms).

Its name is a tribute to Enheduanna, an ancient poet and musician, lived in the 23rd century BC, who is celebrated as one of the first female authors in history.

All dictionaries are integrated and disambiguated with Wikipedia® to enhance the entries with encyclopedia content, images, sounds, etc.

Theory, Albums and Compositions are integrated with streaming platforms (YouTube®, Spotify®...).

• Almost 3.000 terms on Music Theory, Techniques, Instruments, Compositions and their structures, Notation, Performance, etc. covering the spectrum of terms of interest to amateur and professional musicians.

• Musicians biographies (10.000), mostly composers and interpreters, made the history of universal music.

• For some Composers, their most significant Works (7.000) are listed.

• Relevant Compositions (600) explained in their attributes, structures, librettos, etc.

• Musical Schools (1.000) where musicians were educated.

• Albums (11.000) associated with interpreters

, A collection of acclaimed classical and historical Albums (900), their contexts, composers and performers.

• Wordnet+ English Dictionary (>210.000 concepts): an expansion of the Wordnet® developed at Princeton University, one of the most disruptive innovations in universal lexicography. (www.lexsemantic.com/wordnetplus).

The selection of entries was obtained from consultations with the most renowned musical sources, from which the semantic network of music and the respective definitions were developed.

Each term, if not language-specific, is displayed and searchable in six languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese), making Enhedu the most comprehensive musical glossary ever published.

In fact, an important instrument for studying musical theory and analyzing the works that made the history of music.

The Music Ontology developed here represents a unique tool for presenting musical knowledge in a (Semantic) Network, making consultation more effective and objective.

For example, the term “acciaccatura” is linked to “ornament” as a broader member (generalization) which, in turn, has “score notation” as a broader type, and this has “notation” as a broader type. "Notation", in turn, contains specializations (narrower types): System Notation, Directive Notation, Sheet, Score Notation and Instrument Notation.
Examples of other Semantic Relations:
• Similarity - e.g. (hurdy-gurdy <-> organistrum)
• Also see - e.g. (slide <-> glissando)

Its interface has superior functionalities:
• Offline use.
• All dictionaries are integrated with each other, that is, from a word in the definition in one of them, you can obtain, if it exists, the definition of this word in the other dictionaries.
• Translates, copies, and shares entry information.
• Querying entries from external applications (browsers, text editors, etc.)
• Multiple Lists of entries (e.g. Favorite, LearningWords, etc.) created/imported/exported and shared by users.
• The ontological knowledge base allows you to navigate between entries that are linked by semantic concepts.

The following themes of musical knowledge are covered, each with several sub-themes and so on: Period, Musical Genre, Technique, Instrument, Composition, Movement, Structure Form, Theme, Performance, Notation, Tonality, Harmony, Tone, Tempo, Device, Ensemble, Texture, Style, Metric, Dynamics, Ornamentation, Place, Musician, Anthology, School, Music Education, Theory.