The publishers will therefore have their income from selling sheet music to examination candidates protected.
In any case, the space taken up in the library by light fiction and sheet music is a very small fraction of the total.
Finally, what is most important is that the songwriter and composer formerly enjoyed a very healthy income from the sale of sheet music.
Those who printed sheet music feared that their trade would disappear; those who made gramophone records had the same fear.
And like opera arias, music hall songs were issued as sheet music for domestic consumption, making it even easier for the public to become acquainted with them.
Moreover, with economic growth in the middle classes, a larger percentage of the population participated in domestic musical recreation, purchasing all types of sheet music excerpts for performance at home.
In this way, the album covers intersect with a large pool of group-oriented images found on sheet music, in concert advertisements, and on the publicity photos which circulated so widely.
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.
