Some have been acquired by purchase. The acquisition of music related to Southern history, especially Confederate imprints, has been supported by the funds of the George Washington Flowers Memorial Collection. Background of Music Publishing in the United States. Sheet music publishing was well established in the United States by the early 19th century.
Much of the music was printed with engraved plates, although in the s there was a fair amount of music published using the lithographic process. Lithography was not very common until the 's, when the development of chromolithography made illustrated title pages economically feasible. Engraved and lithographed music continued to be issued throughout the period of this project.
It is interesting to note that many of the Confederate imprints in this collection were lithographed - a process that requires less equipment and materials. Metal was, of course, a commodity required for the war and would have been in very short supply for civilian use. Duncan in Columbia, South Carolina in left.
The period after the Civil War saw a great increase in music publishing activity. The stereotype process allowed publishers to issue huge numbers of music for mass consumption. Krummel suggests that this period could be called the "age of parlor music. Witmark is remarkable. Sheet music became so popular that it was even issued as supplements to newspapers.
With the rise of parlor music in the 's came a realization on the part of music publishers of the commercial value of printing advertising on the otherwise blank pages of music. Catalogs of songs and music were sometimes printed on earlier publications see Schreiner's catalog in Battery schottisch , but by the end of the nineteenth century lists of songs with melodies see The Old Man Ain't What He Used To Be or entire pages reproduced for the user to "try over on your piano" became standard see Over There.
Companies even issued series of sheet music to help advertise their products, notably the Emerson Drug Company's promotion of Bromo-Seltzer. Tempo tells you how fast or slow a piece is intended to be played, and often is shown at the top of a piece of sheet music.
Likewise, a tempo of would double the speed at 2 notes every second. Musicians use a tool, called a metronome, to help them keep tempo while practicing a new piece. Click here to see an online metronome tool , and click on the circles next to the BPM values to see how a tempo can speed up and slow down. The interval between the first note of your C major scale and the last is an example of an octave.
The C major scale is very important to practice since once you have the C scale down, the other major scales will start to fall into place. Each of the notes of a C major scale corresponds with a white key on your keyboard. But, what about the black keys? The distance between the C and the D keys in your C scale is a whole step, however, the distance between the E and the F keys in your C scale is a half step.
Do you see the difference? Look at the C major scale again on the keyboard below. Semitones , or half-steps on the keyboard, allow us to write an infinite variety of sounds into music. A natural cancels a sharp or flat within a measure or a song. You actually already know one key signature, the key of C! The C major scale you learned above was in the key of C. Scales are named after their tonic , the preeminent note within the scale, and the tonic determines what key you play in.
You can start a major scale on any note, so long as you follow the whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half pattern. Now, following that pattern in keys other than the key of C will require you to use sharps and flats.
You will begin to recognize the key signatures of pieces based on what sharps or flats are shown. Download your Keyboard Note Guide here , to print, fold and place on your keyboard. Once you become familiar with the keys, you can easily remove it and continue to strengthen your note-reading skills.
Time Traveler for sheet music The first known use of sheet music was in See more words from the same year. Style: MLA.
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