[DCRM-L] Genre Term Song Sheets

[Noble, Richard]

To clarify: it's the broadside ballads that may have nonsense "music", not
song sheets.

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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Noble, Richard <richard_noble at brown.edu>
wrote:

> When I was doing research for notes on a ballad opera (George Lillo,
> *Silvia*) the term "song sheet" denoted an engraved sheet *with* 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.
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> RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Will Evans <evans at bostonathenaeum.org>
> wrote:
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>> When applying the genre term Song sheets, can the item include music as
>> well as lyrics?
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>> Best,
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>> Will
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