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Musical Work 🎶

What is the Musical Work MIDDS?

The Musical Work MIDDS is the structure used to describe and register a musical composition in the Allfeat system. This includes both the core metadata of the work and its link to creators and rights holders.

Each Musical Work must be identified by a valid ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code).

⛔️ Note: Allfeat is not a new registration authority or identifier for musical works. It serves as a decentralized, immutable mirror of the industry's existing music metadata—secured and verifiable on-chain.

Key Attributes

  • ISWC Code ✅
  • Title
  • Aliases / Alternate Titles
  • Year of Creation
  • Instrumental (Yes/No)
  • Lyrics Language
  • BPM (Tempo)
  • Key / Tonality
  • Mode (e.g., Major, Minor)
  • Type of Work
    • Original Work
    • Medley
    • Mashup
    • Adaptation

If Adaptation:

  • Indicate source work(s) and nature of adaptation (e.g., lyrics, music, both)

If Medley:

  • List all constituent works

Classical Music Extensions:

  • Opus Number
  • Catalogue Number
  • Number of Voices / Parts

Comments

Optional additional notes or context.

Participants and Roles

Each Musical Work must reference one or more Party Identifiers with defined roles:

  • Author / Lyricist
  • Composer
  • Arranger
  • Adapter
  • Editor

These are direct links to Party Identifier MIDDS, ensuring participants are verifiably identified.

Why It Matters 🤖

This MIDDS provides a transparent and standardized structure for representing musical works, including collaborative authorship and derivative forms. It enables:

  • Precise royalty distribution
  • Historical traceability
  • Global metadata compatibility

Each work recorded in Allfeat reflects authentic and standardized music industry data, ensuring high fidelity between Web2 and Web3 representations of musical IP.

🔁 Next: Learn how Works are linked to Tracks (ISRC) and Releases (UPC) in the following MIDDS pages.