{
  "id": "band.music",
  "term": "band",
  "sense": "music",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "music",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a group of people who together create music",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "groups.collection",
      "music.auditory",
      "create.production"
    ],
    "interaction": "people join in a group to create music together",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective musical performance",
      "co-created sound patterns",
      "group artistic identity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Beatles recorded 'Abbey Road' at EMI Studios in 1969, blending rock and orchestral arrangements.",
      "domain": "music"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the band Ghost toured 52 cities across North America and Europe, performing symphonic metal.",
      "domain": "touring"
    },
    {
      "text": "The high school jazz band performed at the 2022 State Arts Festival, improvising on 'Take the A Train'.",
      "domain": "education"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "groups.collection",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "band",
    "banded",
    "banding",
    "bands"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "added create.production as it is essential to the definition and was missing in components"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-band.music"
}