The war and growing social freedoms would change our music dramatically and lead us into the roaring twenties where nearly anything was fair game as far as music, movies and behavior. Of course, the middle of the teens saw the First World War and most of our music turned to that subject for the next few years. As a transition period, the 1910s also still carried much from the past and some of the music still smacked of the innocence and Victorian ideals of the earlier century however, such songs became fewer and farther between. Though earlier music often had innuendos on subjects such as sex and vice, during the 1910's music became a little more explicit and open about some issues such as illicit love, drugs and feminine freedoms. Our music became more complex, more expressive and explored new boundaries that earlier music steered clear of. The decade of the 1910's continued the development of America's popular music that had begun during the previous decade. The wait will be worth it! In addition, all music featured this month is printable using the Sibelius Scorch player. In most cases, the download file size exceeds 2mb so some will take quite some time depending on your type connection. As a result, the Scorch files are much larger than usual so expect some delay in downloading. We hope to make much more of our collection available to view through a redesign of our site and help from volunteers to catalog everything, scan and organize the music to make it more accessible.Īs in the previous recent articles, we are continuing to include the full cover art in the Scorch versions so you can enjoy them in more detail than our thumbnail images allow. To continue the review of the decades represented by this collection, this issue will look at music from the 1911 - 19 decade in America from the collection. This issue is the second in a series such as we have done with other large collections such as the Marshall-Morrow collection donated to us in 2009. The total number of sheets donated to us exceeded 6,000 and has increased our collection to a level exceeding all but a few library collections and places us as the top private non-profit web library collection in the country. This unique donation included sheet music from the late 19th century up to the 1970's. Last year we received a generous and most important donation of sheet music from the Erdmann family of New Jersey. Music of the 1910 - 19 Decade From the Erdmann Collection The Erdmann Collection, part three, music of 1911-19Ībove: 1910's covers from the Erdmann Collection.
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