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sheet music

noun

  1. music printed on unbound sheets of paper.


sheet music

noun

  1. the printed or written copy of a short composition or piece, esp in the form of unbound leaves
  2. music in its written or printed form


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sheet music1

First recorded in 1855–60

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Example Sentences

One outside-the-boxer posted the sheet music for Take 5, composed by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

A quick cut reveals the brothers gingerly hiding their next piece of sheet music.

I then move things around, figuring out the larger orchestration, almost like a piece of sheet music.

I shuffle through the sheet music, avoiding tunes in keys with more than two sharps or flats, until I hit on “Old Shanghai.”

Instead, in a format more at home in 1912 than 2012, Beck has given us 20 new songs on sheet music.

Adolescents listening to the latest songs stimulate the demand for popular sheet music.

"Gracious, that sounds like a new nine-cent piece of sheet music," murmured Dick.

The sorting and packing of this consignment of sheet music was handled by Sergt.

But little more than a year has elapsed since the publication of sheet music was begun by this firm.

I came for leopard skins, thought I, and the owner sends me sheet music instead.

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