Sheet Music, The Twentieth Century Rag: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, The Twentieth Century Rag: date made: 1914. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Sixteenth century Protestant European scholars introduced the practice of describing past times in hundred-year intervals known as centuries and used it to group events together chronologically. By the twentieth century, this practice had been adopted in popular song. "The 20th Century Rag" had words by Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie, with music by Maurice Abrahams.
Arno Borst, The Ordering of Time: from the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 103.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1914
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 27 cm x 35 cm; 1/32 in x 10 5/8 in x 13 25/32 in
- place made: United States: New York, New York
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.026
- catalog number: 1988.3086.026
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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