{
  "id": "song.musical",
  "term": "song",
  "sense": "musical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "language",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of music with words",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "music.auditory",
      "lyrics.musical",
      "piece.portion",
      "words.language"
    ],
    "interaction": "music provides sound and lyrics provide words together forming a piece",
    "novel_properties": [
      "structured sound with semantic content",
      "temporal unity of voice and rhythm",
      "expressive phrasing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Bob Dylan performed 'Blowin' in the Wind' at the 1963 March on Washington.",
      "domain": "music"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Beatles recorded 'Hey Jude' at Abbey Road Studios in 1968, releasing it as a single.",
      "domain": "recording"
    },
    {
      "text": "Beyoncé performed 'Halo' live at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.",
      "domain": "performance"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "music.auditory",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a song is a type of music"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "song",
    "songs"
  ],
  "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 missing constitutive concepts 'piece.portion' and 'words.language' to align record with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-song.musical"
}