[Ads-l] Antedating of "Sampling" (Hip Hop Music)

[Laurence Horn]

Maybe in describing how he excerpted the Marseillaise into the 1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky used the Russian equivalent of “sampling”...  

> On Apr 23, 2025, at 2:18 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> sampling, n. (OED, "incorporation of an excerpt from one musical recording to another," 1988)
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> 1987 The Age Entertainment Guide (Melbourne) 20 Nov. 4/2 (Newspapers.com)
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> At the moment sampling — punching bits of other songs and sticking them in your own — is huge.
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> Fred Shapiro
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