Sheet Music Cover
楽譜表紙 / 1820s–1920s / Style / Printed Ephemera
Lithographed covers kept alive by the piano in the parlor. Illustration of the song's scene combined with ornamental lettering into a single picture, and before the record sleeve existed this was how music was shown.
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At a glance
Visual cues
- Scenes of the song
- Ornamental title lettering
- Lithographic color
- Publishers' stock frames
Best used for
- Announcement visuals telling the scene of a song or a performance
- Covers for reissues and compilations that borrow a period to signal content
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Title in ornamental lettering, composer credits dropped to light type
- Composition
- Title across the upper half, scene below, publisher block at the foot
- Material
- Three or four flat lithographic colors over a yellowed paper ground
- Caution
- Lining up ornamental faces without painting the scene of the song leaves a cover holding the signs of a period and none of its subject.
- Further study
- lithography and home music / music-hall cover artists / the inheritance into sleeve design
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- Circus Poster (サーカスポスター)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Nostalgia.Compare Sheet Music Cover and Circus Poster
- Victorian Ornament (ヴィクトリアン装飾)Shared effects: Nostalgia / Exhilaration.Compare Sheet Music Cover and Victorian Ornament
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