Sheet Music Cover
楽譜表紙 / 1820s–1920s / Style / Printed Ephemera
The lithographed covers sustained by the parlor piano: scene illustration and ornamental lettering in a single image — the graphics that showed music before the record sleeve existed.
Scenes of the song / Ornamental title lettering / Lithographic color / Publishers' stock frames
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- lithography and home music / music-hall cover artists / the inheritance into sleeve design