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means Printed pages of musical notation that let a performer read and play a piece of music.
from Straightforward compound: 'sheet,' from Old English 'sceat' (a piece of cloth or paper), plus 'music,' from Greek 'mousike' (art of the Muses). The term simply distinguishes paper-printed music from performance or recording — it rose alongside music publishing, especially in the 19th century when printed songs became a mass commercial product, sold sheet by sheet for pianos in parlors.
- origin
- notation predates staff lines by centuries
- the staff
- five lines settled only in the 1500s
- copyright wars
- 19th century sheet music piracy rivaled today's
- tempo markings
- often just italian for vague vibes