<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">When I was doing research for notes on a ballad opera (George Lillo, <i>Silvia</i>) the term "song sheet" denoted an engraved sheet <i>with</i> the music, as opposed to letterpress broadside ballads, which most often lacked it, since they were written to existing tunes that were designated by name. Some have nonsense woodcut musical notation as décor.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</font><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187</font></div><div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><</span><a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace" target="_blank">Richard_Noble@Br</a><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><a href="http://own.edu" target="_blank">own.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">></span></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Will Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evans@bostonathenaeum.org" target="_blank">evans@bostonathenaeum.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">When applying the genre term Song sheets, can the item include music as well as lyrics?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Will Evans</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Chief Rare Materials Catalog Librarian</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Library of the Boston Athenaeum</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">10 1/2 Beacon Street</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Boston, MA   02108</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Tel:  <a href="tel:617-227-0270%20ext.%20224" value="+16172270270" target="_blank">617-227-0270 ext. 224</a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Fax: <a href="tel:617-227-5266" value="+16172275266" target="_blank">617-227-5266</a> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.bostonathenaeum.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div>
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