A book telling the history of sheet music records from the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Lavishly illustrated, showing notebook covers, it will be not only an excellent source of knowledge as well as a guide for collectors.
Table of Contents: - Lesson from sheet music - Beginning and development of sheet music illustration - Farewell to the eighteenth century - Style of the nineteenth century: Romanticism - Always fashionable folk - Exoticism and the discovery of the sea - Daily life of poetry - Social note - Calligraphy and lithographic illustration - Patriotism and politics - Problems of caricature - International of notes - On the Polish note - On Strauss, Offenbach and Adam Vronsky - Particularly on France - English and German notes - Musical addition to the iconography of Cracow - Sports - Fashion different from the journals - "modern style" lithography. - Preparation for the entente - The era of stars
Publisher: P. W.M, 1971
Format: 215 x 165 mm, 328s, Hardcover, cloth binding, scuffs on spine of wrapper.
