Before recording became the norm, lots of songs were passed around that way. Just through the sheet music.
Not necessarily pretentious, just very very old fashioned.
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Beck's New Album
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Before recording became the norm, lots of songs were passed around that way. Just through the sheet music.
Not necessarily pretentious, just very very old fashioned.
Songs were actually sold that way and songwriters could make their fortune by having a "million seller". Every bar used to have a piano, and somebody to play it.
The first commercial phonographs were marketed in the 1890s, along with the first prerecorded cylinders. Thomas Edison did not consider selling prerecorded music to be a viable business model, which is why his first prodution model was a "Dictaphone"- used for taking dictation. Needless to say, the success of Eldridge Johnson's Victor Company changed his mind.
Sales of sheet music exceeded sales of records until WW I, twenty years after people started buying phonographs and records.
John Phillip Sousa publicly denounced phonographs, saying that they would "kill" music, since lazy people could enjoy it without having to work to produce it. He then made some recordings, enjoyed some success, and changed his mind, too.
I'm not a big Beck fan, but this is brilliant and hilarious! I feel like buying it based on that alone, and maybe even working out some tunes (I'm not the best sight reader). I wonder if they're "full score" or piano only? What is the instrumentation if they're full score? The linked article seems to say that he isn't going to record any of this himself. Will he tour in support to people who will be hearing him do his own songs for the first time?
The first commercial phonographs were marketed in the 1890s, along with the first prerecorded cylinders. Thomas Edison did not consider selling prerecorded music to be a viable business model, which is why his first prodution model was a "Dictaphone"- used for taking dictation. Needless to say, the success of Eldridge Johnson's Victor Company changed his mind.
Sales of sheet music exceeded sales of records until WW I, twenty years after people started buying phonographs and records.
John Phillip Sousa publicly denounced phonographs, saying that they would "kill" music, since lazy people could enjoy it without having to work to produce it. He then made some recordings, enjoyed some success, and changed his mind, too.
I'm not a big Beck fan, but this is brilliant and hilarious! I feel like buying it based on that alone, and maybe even working out some tunes (I'm not the best sight reader). I wonder if they're "full score" or piano only? What is the instrumentation if they're full score? The linked article seems to say that he isn't going to record any of this himself. Will he tour in support to people who will be hearing him do his own songs for the first time?
That is the most punk rock thing I've ever heard of! Way to go Beck!
And they said the Xerox machine would destroy the sheet music industry!
And they said the Xerox machine would destroy the sheet music industry!
bassman314
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I pre-ordered this back in August.
I jsut got mine today. The artwork is stunning, and Beck wrote a preface explaining his troughts behind it.
It's pretty amazing. I am going to see about convincing my band to try a song or 2.
I jsut got mine today. The artwork is stunning, and Beck wrote a preface explaining his troughts behind it.
It's pretty amazing. I am going to see about convincing my band to try a song or 2.
First time hearing about this. Pretty cool. Guess I know what I'll be up to for a weekend or two in the future.
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