At 02:30 PM 12/9/2002 -0500, you wrote: >The huge increase in popular music was due in part because of radio. >People bought the music they heard on the radio. They also bought not only >records, but the sheet music went along with it. Then when talkies came, >(The Jazz Singer came out in 1927), people rushed to buy the music they >heard on the screen. > >Wim Yes, that's true ... but the printed music did play its little part ... just trying to make allowances for your students, to figure out how they could have thought of the printing press. Most people with a piano also had a bench full of sheet music, mainly popular songs. They are still showing up at flea markets and used book stores. Susan
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