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Sheet Music of the Week: Coming in with the Comet Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

This week’s featured sheet music honors one of the great voices of American literature. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was born on this day in 1835, two weeks after Halley’s Comet made its closest approach to the Sun. Celebrate the author’s birthday with the “Mark Twain mazurka” and the …

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Sheet Music of the Week: Thanksgiving Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

Last year In the Muse celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with Geo. W. Morgan’s “National Thanksgiving hymn“, from the Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922 collection in the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. This year the same collection gives us our featured holiday sheet music.  As I noted last year, “The turkey gobbler’s ball” is not actually about Thanksgiving but is …

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Sheet Music of the Week: The Birth of Cinema Edition

Posted by: Pat Padua

This week’s featured sheet music celebrates one of the pioneers of  cinema.  The aptly named Louis Lumière was born on this day in 1864.  In 1895 Louis and his brother Auguste patented the cinématographe, a device that worked as a film camera, developer and projector.  This was in contrast to Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, first demonstrated in 1891, …