"music" = 'recorded music'

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Wed Apr 18 20:06:25 UTC 2001


This seems like the sort of thing that someone might have
tucked away somewhere.

I'm looking for a pre-1947 example of _music_ in the sense
'a recording of the playing of music; (also) the sound
reproduced by the playing of such a recording; recorded
music'. (Sense 5.b. in Webster's 3.) Typical examples are
things like "a growing demand for music by the best
artists" or "put on some music".

It's proven much harder than I expected to find this.

Thanks for any help!

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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