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“The earliest forms of written music date back to Sumerian cuneiforms,” writes Adam Baer in the Virginia Quarterly Review. He goes on: “by the end of the nineteenth century in America, sheet music was the chief way that popular songs were disseminated. … The birth of Tin Pan Alley, the name for the stretch of street in downtown New York City where the music publishers worked, made music writing big business. A successful song might sell up to 500,000 copies, eventually more than a million.” It’s no surprise, then, that the Bowling Green State University Sheet Music Collection, which includes songs from the 1880s to the 1990s, contains over 50,000 pieces of music. A selection of it is now available on JSTOR. It’s free to browse and share. Here are some of our favorites from JSTOR. For even more, you can browse the full digital collection from the Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives at Bowling Green. ....
Looking Back At The Virginia Quarterly Review Tragedy In Charlottesville An editor s suicide is still shrouded in mystery. When I reflect back on the years that I spent in Charlottesville, Virginia, I remember feeling that there were a lot of disturbing things going on for such a small town. In 2009, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student vanished after being denied re-entry to a Metallica concert at John Paul Jones Arena and then attempted to hitchhike back to Blacksburg, which is 150 miles away. Three months later, her remains were found on a farm outside of town. The next year, varsity lacrosse player George Huguely killed his ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love in a late-night drunken rage after forcing his way into her room and banging her head repeatedly against a wall. And then, just a couple of months later, Kevin Morrissey, the 52-year-old managing editor of the University of Virginia s esteemed literary journal, ....