MUSIC 2II3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ampex, Jack Mullin, Count Basie
Document Summary
The stationers company set up through the crown granted people rights to their ideas. If someone broke copyright they need to pay royalties. Gvo"t payed attention to the demand for copyright laws; led to song writing becoming a potential career. Industrial revolution : big economic movement and the middle class emerges. Had disposable incomes to purchase things they didn"t need such as pianos. Printing press : invention of the printing press allows people to start making a living off of their ideas; sheet music. Rise of the middle class : families bought piano"s during the 1800"s and playing them were a leisure activity. Parlour songs : came out of the purchase of pianos. Women needed content to sing along too when playing the piano. No movement during performances; victorian denial of the body. Target performance was young middle class women; songs often about how young women fit the ideals of victorian society or cautionary tales about love.
