A
- Adaptation
- Work that is based on another work.
- Answer song aka Response song
- Song made in answer to a previous song, normally performed by another artist.
- Artist alias
- Exist because of an artist's musical career.
- Are names used by a peformer in the context of a performance or a release.
- ASIN
- Amazon Standard Identification Number, a unique identifier for each product on Amazon. Example: B07D31BQHX
- Author
- Artist who wrote the lyrics of a work
B
- Broadcast
- Movie, TV show, TV commercial, radio show, radio commercial
C
- Case
- An input by a user regarding the database, that needs to be processed by the editor team. There are three types: Submissions, Error reports or and Edit reviews.
- Combined Adaptation
- An adaptation that takes music from one work, and lyrics from another work, and has no additional writing credits
- Composer
- Artist who wrote the music of a work
- Content type
- Classification of releases: Album, EP, single or video.
- Contrafact
- A musical work consisting of a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure.
- Contrafacts are not considered adaptations at SecondHandSongs, but we might mention it as trivia.
D
- Digital lead single
- Performances available for download, but only through a webpage of an album that has not yet been released.
- DP
- Domaine publique = Public domain
- Double A-side
- A release without an explicit A-side
E
- EAN
- European Article Number. Also known as bar code.
- Serves on SHS as unique identifier for releases.
- Edit Review
- A type of case that is generated when a user adds or changes data of an existing entry.
- Example: A user adds a Youtube video to a performance
- Entry
- Entry or database entry is any object in the database. It can be an artist, a release, a work, a performance or a label.
- Do not confuse with Entry Attributes. For example: Artist country, Work language, Label visual, etc...
- External Recording
- Audio sample from a source outside of SHS, linked to a SHS Performance. Currently Youtube videos, Spotify tracks and Internet Archive audio
F
- Format type
- Subclassification of releases based on physical characteristics. Examples: 7'', CD, Tape, etc...
G
- GitHub
- Tracking system used in this project for enhancements and bugs.
I
- (In)transitive credits
- The credits of the root work are (not) transposed into the credits of the adaptation.
- IPI
- Interested Parties Information. International identification number assigned to songwriters and publishers to uniquely identify rights holders.
- ISRC
- International Standard Recording Code: a unique universal identifier for performances.
- ISWC
- International Standard Musical Work Code: a unique universal identifier for works.
L
- Label can refer to
- A record label or record company: A brand or trademark of music recordings, or the company that owns it.
- A release label or release sticker: The sticker that is on the LP, single or CD
- Label series
- Set of releases which belong to the same catalog number sequence. Example: CK 45012, CK 45013, CK 45014, etc...
- LC
- Label Code. Unique identifier for labels, created in 1977 for releases commercialized in Germany.
- Live show
- Stage production, concert, stage musical, ballet, opera or public event
- Long quote
- Adaptation type whre a new or existing melody is fitted to existing lyrics or a poem
- Lyricization
- Adaptation type using the music from the root work in combination with new lyrics
M
- Medley
- A performance based on multiple work parts, with these parts structured sequentially.
O
- Original
- The first performance of a work, either first performed live, broadcasted, recorded or released.
- Out of the Vault
- Performances released more than 10 years after they were recorded.
- Owner
- The owner of a database entry is the editor who gets the error reports regarding that entry. He also has full editing rights on this entry.
P
- ℗
- Sound recording copyright symbol. Provides notice of copyright in a sound recording (known as "performance" on SHS), embodied in a phonorecord (known as "release" on SHS). See Wikipedia.
- Part(s)
- The work(s) of which a performance is a version of.
- Similar to the "version" relation, it describes the relation between a performance and a work, but in the opposite direction.
- Performance
- A version of a work performed by one or more performing artists.
- Personal name
- Exist indepently from an artist's musical career.
- Are names known under which a person is known to the authorities at some point in time.
- PRO
- Performing Rights Organization. Examples: ASCAP, BMI, GEMA, etc...
R
- Recomposition
- Adaptation type using a signficant musical part from the root work together with new additional composition elements.
- Root work
- Work that is not based on another work.
- Release
- The physical or digital carrier of a performance. Think of a vinyl single, a CD album, a digital track, etc...
- Romanization
- Replacing text written in one script with the characters of the Roman alpabet.
S
- Scat
- Improvised vocal performance with non-sensical words ("Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub")
- Submission
- A cover any user suggests to be added to the database. A submission has to be processed by an editor to become a database entry.
T
- Ticket
- Enhancement or bug filed in GitHub.
- Transliteration
- Replacing text written in one script with the characters of another script.
U
- UPC
- Universal Product Code. Also known as bar code. Unique identifier, in this context used for releases.
- Unverified
- Status of a submission when we received it, but our editor team still needs to verify and complete it.
V
- V-Discs
- LPs produced during the 1940s for the U.S. military personnel.
- Version
- A performance of a work
- Versions can be covers as well as originals
- NB : On reggae singles, "Version" is the instrumental B-side of the main track. (not SHS terminology)
- Virtual duet
- A performance presented like a duet (=joint performance), but where one of the artists was sampled and didn't actually co-perform.
- Example: Cold Heart by Dua Lipa - Elton John
- Vocalese
- Vocal jazz work or jazz performance adding lyrics to an instrumental work.
- Vocalise
- Vocal performance singing the tune of a work just vowel sounds ("lalalala lalalalala ooooo oooo lalalala").
- VWML
- Vaughn Williams Memorial Library
- Website used to research the Roud Folk Song Index
W
- Web covers
- Cover song released on Youtube, but not commercially.
- Work
- The immaterial concept of a musical piece of art, limited by what's defined in advance ("the score").