| The Historic American Sheet Music, Rare,
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| | Another popular and now defunct function
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| Book, Manuscript and Special Collections
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| | of sheet music was as a carrier for art.
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| Library at Duke University struggles with
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| | In some cases, the art on the cover of
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| the definition of sheet music. Though
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| | the sheet music was as interesting and
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| some might desire to relegate the use of
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| | desirable as the music found inside.
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| the term sheet music to popular or modern
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| | Music publishing (in America) began in
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| music, The Library at Duke has discovered
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| | the 1790s. At that point it was not big
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| that Especially in the mid-nineteenth
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| | business because unlike a century later,
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| century, a publisher may have issued
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| | the average consumer did not have a piano
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| sacred and secular songs, Lieder, opera
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| | in the house and, as America was still
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| excerpts, potpourris, waltzes, marches
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| | expanding, shipping was difficult and
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| and descriptive etudes side-by-side. They
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| | costly. It wasnt until after the Civil
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| go on to describe sheet music as the mere
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| | War that the visual art on the cover of
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| physical product of recording music on
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| | the sheet music became as important as
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| paper. Sheet music can also be described
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| | the audible art found on the inside. One
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| as a score. However it is described,
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| | particular artist, E.T. Paul because
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| sheet music is the way in which a reader
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| | particularly well known for his song
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| (one who reads musical notation) can play
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| | choices and cover art. He began by
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| a piece of music.
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| | commissioning color lithographs for his
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| Sheet music provides a special kind of
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| | own pieces of composition. It is believed
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| potential entertainment. Musical scores,
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| | that much of his (wild) success was due
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| specifically those written for or
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| | less to the content of his music and more
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| including the piano, were very popular at
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| | to his topic choice and choice of cover
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| the turn of the century as many private
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| | art. In the same way that cover art
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| homes had pianos. Before radio became the
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| | revolutionized the sale and advertising
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| preferred form of entertainment, regular
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| | qualities of sheet music, cheap
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| people had to create their own
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| | alternatives for shipping took this
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| entertainment. A new set of sheet music
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| | fledgling American industry from being
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| was like a new TV show, and allowed
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| | strictly regional to being able to reach
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| anyone who could play to entertain
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| | all over the country.
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| themselves with a new piece of music.
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