A broadside ballad relied not onsheetmusicbut on common knowledge of a tune (it was indicated only by name).
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Each subject has a respectable bibliography, with, in many cases, a discography, videography, and list of relatedsheetmusic.
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They learned to play much of their music by ear, rather than fromsheetmusic, although some of them could read it.
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Once they come to play idiomatic keyboard music fromsheetmusic, they are likely to lose interest in the simpler, less varied songs.
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Yet thesheetmusicrendition does encapsulate nicely the minimalist nature of this track.
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From 1831 onwards, after the original copyright law of 1790 was revised and amended, music published insheetmusicform was accorded the same copyright protection.
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If a visual representation of sameness and belonging encouraged identification with characters and with singers, it also presumably encouraged the acquisition ofsheetmusic, albums and tickets.
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For music, this meant copies of thesheetmusicin return for a fee to the author(s), and was later extended to live performances and recordings.
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In this way, the album covers intersect with a large pool of group-oriented images found onsheetmusic, in concert advertisements, and on the publicity photos which circulated so widely.
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Moreover, with economic growth in the middle classes, a larger percentage of the population participated in domestic musical recreation, purchasing all types ofsheetmusicexcerpts for performance at home.
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And like opera arias, music hall songs were issued assheetmusicfor domestic consumption, making it even easier for the public to become acquainted with them.
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Those who printedsheetmusicfeared that their trade would disappear; those who made gramophone records had the same fear.
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Finally, what is most important is that the songwriter and composer formerly enjoyed a very healthy income from the sale ofsheetmusic.
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In any case, the space taken up in the library by light fiction andsheetmusicis a very small fraction of the total.
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The publishers will therefore have their income from sellingsheetmusicto examination candidates protected.
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