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[15] [b] From 1900 to 1910, over one hundred songs sold more than a million copies. [5] Various "hit songs" sold as many as two or three million copies in print. [11] [17] With the advent of the radio broadcasting, sheet music sales of popular songs decreased and print figures failed to make a significant recovery after the World War II (1940s ...
Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection: 19th-century, 20th-century, American, blues, foxtrots, Irving Berlin, minstrel songs, movie music, popular music, rags, show tunes, war songs: 5,000 Sheet music for popular tunes dating as far back as 1865. Items are scanned at 600 dpi and saved as a TIFF files. Mississippi State University
Williams published the sheet music in 1923, and the same year Bessie Smith recorded the first hit version. [57] The song is often played as a ballad, although the sheet music indicates "medium bounce tempo". [107] Williams himself recorded the song in 1928 with his Blue Five. [57] Jo Stafford and Nat King Cole sang it in the 1945 film That's ...
The Seikilos epitaph is an Ancient Greek inscription that preserves the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation. [1] Commonly dated between the 1st and 2nd century AD, the inscription was found engraved on a pillar from the ancient Hellenistic town of Tralles (present-day Turkey) in 1883.
The piece “Echoes from Ugarit”, whose name bears the album, is the oldest music notation in the world that was discovered in the city of Ugarit, Ras Shamra - Syria, on cuneiform tablets dating back to the fourth century BC. Malik Jandali, the Syrian pianist, was the first musician in the world to deal with this notation, add rhythm and ...
Signature songs can be the result of spontaneous public identification, or a marketing tool developed by the music industry to promote artists, sell their recordings, and develop a fan base. [1] Artists and bands with a signature song are generally expected to perform it at every concert appearance, often as an encore on concert tours ...
The oldest surviving written music is the Hurrian songs from Ugarit, Syria. Of these, the oldest is the Hymn to Nikkal (hymn no. 6; h. 6), which is somewhat complete and dated to c. 1400 BCE. [69] However, the Seikilos epitaph is the earliest entirely complete noted musical composition.
By the 1930s, Egypt's classical musical tradition was already thriving, centered on the city of Cairo. In general, modern Egyptian music blends its rich indigenous traditions, with some western elements that helped create Egyptian pop music. Umm Kulthum. Since the end of World War I, some of the Middle East's biggest musical stars have been ...