US1329286A - Music-sheet - Google Patents

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R. CALLENDER.

MUSIC SHEET. APPLICATION FI'LED A UG,.30.1916.

UNITED STATES PATENT onirica.

ROMAINE CALLENDER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE AEOLIAN COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

MUSIC-SHEET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 27, 1920.

Application filed August 30, 1916. Serial No. 117,673.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROMAINE CALLENDER, a British subject, residing at 4429 Baltimore avenue, Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Music-Sheets, of which the following is a specication.

My present invention relates to an improved music sheet for automatic musical instruments having features and advantages which will be apparent to those skilled in the art from an understanding of the following description in connectionl with the drawings.

Figures l, '2 and 3 collectively show a specimen of a perforated music sheet or roll within my invention, portions of the sheet being shown broken or torn away to save room, Fig. l showing the iirst portion of the sheet supposed to connect with the later portion shown in Fig. 2, and this in turn being supposed to connect with the portion shown in Fig. 3.

Describing, now, the music sheet of the drawings: 1 1 are the usual note perforations. 2 is a literary legend usually poetical, having a literary or emotional content, etc., suggestive of the musical 'composition embodied in the music sheet; and 3 is a prose description, historical and musical, of the composition including directions for its proper rendition. These are put at the beginning of the music sheet for convenient reading before playing the music for which the player is thereby mentally and emotionally prepared.

The music sheet shown is intended to be played as it travels laterally before the player from right to left, but my improvements herein set forth are also applicable to the vertically traveling type of music sheet, although the former is much preferred.

`Next on the music sheet is a skeleton outline 4 of the component passages and motives of the composition. This, as it were, gives a birds-eye view of the composition and the mental picture so obtained greatly assists in the proper rendition of the music.

It will be noted that the main and subheadings of said skeleton outline bear numeral or serial designations. Further, it will be seen that the same headings and subheadings with their numerals occur in the body of the music sheet to designate the musical passages to which they refer.

5 is a phrase line running lengthwise of the music sheet. rlhe angular points 6 in said line mark the commencement of the passages that need care in treatment; and the accompanying designations indicate the kind of expression that should be used. rlhese include the designations close and half close. All half closes callV for a slight moderation of speed and often of intensity or loudness unless otherwise indi-v cated; and all closes require the same treatment but in a somewhat wilder degree.

The ends of whole or integral musical sections or divisions in the compositions are marked by breaks 7 in the phrase line. They require a pause of silence and where that pause should be more than momentary its approximate duration is marked in number of seconds or counts during which the performer-'should hold the music sheet stationary before proceeding.

The angular points 6 mark all passages and features of musical consequence such as changes from major to minor or the reverse, passages of imitation, of modulation, transition to a new key, repetition of phrase, passages in dialogue style marked by Question and Answer, the expressive passages, preparation for climax, accented passages of repetition or emphasis, etc.

The aforesaid verbal designations and playing directions of the divisions and subdivisions, etc., of the musical composition are located on the music sheet relative to the travel thereof immediately ahead of the corresponding variations therein comprising the indentations 6, the marks 8, the pauses 7, etc.

The skeleton outline of motives, etc., is repeated at the end of the music sheet together with the literary legend and prose description, because the player stimulated by having just heard the composition will be prepared to discover new points-of information and interpretive interest in these literary helps which had not been discovered before.

What I claim is l. A. perforated music sheet for an automatic musical instrument having a straight line running lengthwise of the sheet provided with laterally extending distinguish- .ing points severally located at the beginvance nings of the component passages of the musical composition represented by the perforations in the music sheet, and interpretive directions located von the sheet in adof the respective distinguishing points.

2. A perforated music sheet for an automatic musical instrumentl having' a line-running lengthwise of the sheet provided with laterally extending distinguishing points severally located at the beginnings of the component passages of the musical composition represented by the perforations in the music sheet, said line further having interruptions therein severally located at the pauses in said musical composition.

3. A perforated music sheet for an automatic musical instrument having a line running' lengthwise of the sheet with interruptions in said line which are severally located at the pauses in the musical composition represented by the perforations in the music sheet.

4. A perforated music sheet for an automatic musical instrument having the component passages of the musical composition named thereon at intervals in the length of the sheet corresponding to the positions of the respective note perforations vrepresenting such passages, in combination With a summary statement of said passages, said summary statement being located both at the beginning and at the end of the music sheet.

5. A perforated music sheet for an aut0- matic musical instrument having a line running lengthwise of the sheet provided With laterally extending distinguishing points severally located at the beginnings of the component passages of the musical composition represented by the perforations in the music sheet, said line further having interruptions therein severally located at the pauses in said musical composition, and numbers on the music sheet at said interruptions indicating the respective timelengths of the pauses.

ROMANE CLLENDER.

Witnesses S. HAROLD SARGENT, DAISY A. SARGENT.

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