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The Board of Music Trade of the United States, a trade cartel, is formed by the twenty-five biggest music publishing companies in the country, [50] instituting price controls on sheet music for European classical music, which will remain in place until 1885. [51] The Board will also fight music teachers, who sell sheet music to their students. [52]
Cradle Song, Op.16; Memories of Childhood; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphony No. 1; Camille Saint-Saëns – Serenade in E flat major, Op. 15; Pablo de Sarasate – Souvenirs de Faust; Johan Svendsen. String Quartet, Op. 1; 2 Songs (Male Chorus), Op. 2; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Overture in F major; Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor; Quartet ...
The first song to became "popular" through a national advertising campaign was "My Grandfather's Clock" in 1876. [3] Mass production of piano in the late-19th century helped boost sheet music sales. [3] Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies.
Charles K. Harris premiers "After the Ball", a waltz typical of the time, [8] which is said to be the most popular song of the decade, [81] and the biggest hit of the century. [82] It is interpolated into a play, and the sheet music is said to have sold more than five million copies. [8]
Timeline of music in the United States; To 1819; 1820–1849; 1850–1879; 1880–1919; 1920–1949; 1950–1969; 1970–present; Music history of the United States; Colonial era – to the Civil War – During the Civil War – Late 19th century – 1900–1940 – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s
The music derived from this war was of greater quantity and variety than from any other war involving America. [38] Songs came from a variety of sources. "Battle Hymn of the Republic" borrowed its tune from a song sung at Methodist revivals. "Dixie" was a minstrel song that Daniel Emmett adapted from two Ohio black singers named Snowden. [39]
I interviewed the country great about the tune in 2004, right after he recorded it, for my book “Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music” — along with pinning him down at the ...
"Marching Through Georgia" [a] is an American Civil War-era marching song written and composed by Henry Clay Work in 1865. It is sung from the perspective of a Union soldier who had participated in Sherman's March to the Sea; he looks back on the momentous triumph after which Georgia became a "thoroughfare for freedom" and the Confederacy was left on its last legs.