"music" = 'recorded music'

[Jesse Sheidlower]

> Here's the earliest cite in our files:
>
> Processed music, as everybody knows, does not sound exactly
> like fresh music, though with good engineering at the source and
> with careful handling of a good receiving instrument, its final
> reception can be pretty convincing.
>
> Virgil Thompson
> The Musical Scene
> Knopf, 1940
> p. 252

Thanks very much. I had really assumed this would go back still
earlier, but I've been going through some 1930s sources without
much luck. Maybe it just seems older but isn't.

JTS