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performance.", "scope_statement": "This model owns gospel music as a musical genre and tradition family under vr.tr.gospel-music, including its religious orientation, musical expression, community attribution and relationships to repertoire and performances; it distinguishes the genre from individual works, recordings and carriers.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence supporting or contesting classification as gospel music", "Christian devotional, testimonial and proclamation content as expressed through music", "Musical and participatory practices associated with particular gospel traditions", "Community, regional and historical attribution of gospel repertoire and styles", "Relationships between the genre, songs, arrangements, performances and recordings", "Context-sensitive description, discovery and selection of gospel music" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Christian doctrine and the authority or truth of religious claims", "Complete models of individual compositions, arrangements, recordings, editions and physical copies", "General music theory, instrument construction and audio engineering", "Church governance and worship-service administration", "Artist biographies and music-industry organisations beyond their classification relevance", "General copyright law, licensing contracts and royalty administration" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Require evidence of gospel identification by relevant performers, communities, scholarship or catalogues; Christian lyrics alone do not establish the genre.", "Distinguish gospel identification from gospel-influenced sound: vocal ornamentation, choir textures or call-and-response alone do not establish religious or genre affiliation.", "Distinguish a song's origin from a later gospel arrangement or performance; classification at one level must not automatically propagate to every rendition.", "Treat spirituals, hymns, contemporary Christian music, soul and gospel as potentially related or overlapping classifications whose boundaries require contextual evidence.", "Do not classify music as gospel merely because it is performed in a church, or exclude it merely because it appears in a commercial or secular venue." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Gospel attribution status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | supported | contested | insufficient evidence, with supporting attribution", "why_it_matters": "Separates an evidenced classification from a label inferred from sound, lyrics or venue." }, { "name": "Tradition affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named gospel tradition or community, with geography, period, source and self-description where available", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one gospel tradition's conventions from becoming universal requirements." }, { "name": "Religious and expressive orientation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Multiple evidenced descriptors, such as praise, testimony, proclamation, lament or invitation; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation and selection without reducing classification to religious keywords." }, { "name": "Performance organisation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Solo, small ensemble, choir, congregational or combined participation, with observed leader-response relationships", "why_it_matters": "Records how musical leadership and participation shape a particular gospel expression." }, { "name": "Musical practice profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Contextual descriptors of vocal delivery, repetition, improvisation, rhythm, harmony and accompaniment", "why_it_matters": "Enables comparison while avoiding a single sonic checklist for all gospel music." }, { "name": "Classification target", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Genre family | repertoire grouping | work | arrangement | performance | recording | release", "why_it_matters": "Makes clear which entity the gospel label describes." }, { "name": "Use context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Worship, devotional listening, concert, broadcast, education or other documented context; multiple values allowed", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess suitability without equating genre identity with venue." }, { "name": "Reuse clearance relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to relevant composition, arrangement, recording and performance permission records; unresolved permitted", "why_it_matters": "Prevents religious purpose or repertoire age from being mistaken for permission to reuse a specific rendition." } ], "affordances": [ "Assign, qualify or withhold a gospel classification using attributed evidence.", "Find repertoire by tradition, religious theme, language and participation pattern.", "Compare gospel renditions of the same song while preserving their distinct arrangements and contexts.", "Suggest music for a stated worship, concert or educational purpose with explicit suitability criteria.", "Identify the specific work, arrangement or recording records needed before transcription, adaptation, sampling or distribution.", "Explain classification disagreements and route unresolved cultural or historical claims for review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "gospel-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Gospel identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish what is being called gospel and the evidence supporting that attribution.", "rationale": "Religious content, musical resemblance and community identification can support different classifications.", "layers": [ { "id": "attributed-gospel-identification", "name": "Attributed gospel identification", "description": "Record who applies the label and to which musical entity.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-evidence", "name": "Classification evidence", "description": "Require attributable evidence before treating a proposed gospel label as settled.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which performer, community, catalogue or researched account identifies this repertoire or rendition 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"text": "Which lyric version, translation or performed variation supports that interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "religious-content-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "devotional-and-programming-function", "name": "Devotional and programming function", "description": "Relate the music's documented or requested function to selection decisions.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-suitability", "name": "Contextual suitability", "description": "Assess suitability for a particular audience or service through stated requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this rendition intended for congregational participation, testimony, worship leadership, concert presentation or another purpose?", "kind": "definition", "id": "contextual-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "What lyrical, language, participation or community requirements must be met before recommending it for the requested setting?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-suitability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "gospel-musical-and-participatory-practice", "name": "Gospel musical and participatory practice", "description": "Capture the audible and participatory features of a gospel expression without imposing universal stylistic rules.", "rationale": "Genre-level labels do not sufficiently describe how a particular gospel rendition sounds or involves participants.", "layers": [ { "id": "vocal-and-ensemble-relationships", "name": "Vocal and ensemble relationships", "description": "Describe the relationship between leaders, ensembles and participating listeners.", "findings": [ { "id": "leadership-and-response", "name": "Leadership and response", "description": "Record observed solo, choir, ensemble and congregational roles rather than inferring them from the genre label.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who leads, answers, harmonises or joins collectively in this performance?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "leadership-and-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which recording passages, score instructions or participant accounts establish those relationships?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "leadership-and-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rendition-specific-musical-features", "name": "Rendition-specific musical features", "description": "Locate musical practices in a particular arrangement or performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "repetition-improvisation-and-delivery", "name": "Repetition, improvisation and delivery", "description": "Describe audible variation, repeated sections and expressive delivery with evidence appropriate to the rendition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What repetitions, improvised passages, vocal embellishments, rhythmic patterns and accompaniment changes are observable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "repetition-improvisation-and-delivery-q01" }, { "text": "Which features are documented conventions of the attributed tradition, and which are specific to this performer or arrangement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "repetition-improvisation-and-delivery-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "gospel-traditions-and-cultural-attribution", "name": "Gospel traditions and cultural attribution", "description": "Place gospel labels and practices within documented communities, places and periods.", "rationale": "A single undifferentiated label can obscure distinct histories, local meanings and disputed attributions.", "layers": [ { "id": "tradition-names-and-self-description", "name": "Tradition names and self-description", "description": "Preserve community terminology alongside external catalogue labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-tradition-label", "name": "Situated tradition label", "description": "Attach a tradition name to evidence of its usage rather than assigning it from perceived performer identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What tradition name do the relevant musicians or communities use, and in what place, language and period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-tradition-label-q01" }, { "text": "Does an external genre label match that self-description, overlap with it or remain contested?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-tradition-label-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-and-cross-tradition-relations", "name": "Transmission and cross-tradition relations", "description": "Track evidenced adaptation and circulation without inferring lineage from resemblance alone.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-repertoire-transmission", "name": "Documented repertoire transmission", "description": "Separate documented borrowing, translation and adaptation from hypotheses about musical influence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources document how this gospel song or practice moved between communities, languages or performance settings?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-repertoire-transmission-q01" }, { "text": "What attribution should accompany a description or adaptation, and which lineage claims remain unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "documented-repertoire-transmission-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "gospel-repertoire-versions-and-reuse", "name": "Gospel repertoire, versions and reuse", "description": "Connect gospel classification to distinct musical entities and the permissions relevant to proposed use.", "rationale": "Shared sacred repertoire can appear in materially different arrangements and recordings with separate attribution and reuse requirements.", "layers": [ { "id": "song-arrangement-and-recording-identity", "name": "Song, arrangement and recording identity", "description": "Resolve what is shared across renditions and what belongs to a particular expression.", "findings": [ { "id": "repertoire-entity-resolution", "name": "Repertoire entity resolution", "description": "Keep alternate titles, altered lyrics, translations, medleys and recordings connected without collapsing their identities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do these gospel performances use the same underlying song, a translation, a new arrangement or a medley containing it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": 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time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a gospel music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a gospel music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a gospel music sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a gospel music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a gospel music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a gospel music from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a gospel music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a gospel music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a gospel music passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a gospel music between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a gospel music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a gospel music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a gospel music, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a gospel music is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a gospel music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a gospel music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a gospel music says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a gospel music contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a gospel music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a gospel music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a gospel music and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a gospel music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a gospel music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of gospel music a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For gospel music, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of gospel music exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made gospel music and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to gospel music, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in gospel music, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a gospel music came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a gospel music and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a gospel music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a gospel music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a gospel music is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a gospel music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a gospel music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a gospel music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }