A broadside ballad relied not on sheet music but on common knowledge of a tune (it was indicated only by name).
Each subject has a respectable bibliography, with, in many cases, a discography, videography, and list of related sheet music.
They learned to play much of their music by ear, rather than from sheet music, although some of them could read it.
Once they come to play idiomatic keyboard music from sheet music, they are likely to lose interest in the simpler, less varied songs.
Yet the sheet music rendition does encapsulate nicely the minimalist nature of this track.
From 1831 onwards, after the original copyright law of 1790 was revised and amended, music published in sheet music form was accorded the same copyright protection.
If a visual representation of sameness and belonging encouraged identification with characters and with singers, it also presumably encouraged the acquisition of sheet music, albums and tickets.
For music, this meant copies of the sheet music in return for a fee to the author(s), and was later extended to live performances and recordings.
