music roll

noun

1. a roll of perforated paper for actuating a player piano.

music roll

noun

1. a roll of perforated paper for use in a mechanical instrument such as a player piano

Word History and Origins

Origin of music roll¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

In the car, she would blast Spanish-language music, roll down her windows and sing until she heard: “Mom! Roll up your windows!”

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The early albums and concerts of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were peppered with such Berry works as “Rock & Roll Music,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Carol” and “Around and Around.”

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Viewed as both an advocate for artists and a game-changer – almost no other pop star could have made Apple Music roll over – the 25-year-old Pennsylvanian is arguably the world’s most powerful female music star.

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This corresponds closely to the perforated music roll of to-day, which could be read by a practiced eye with and probably without staff lines, to the extent that if every other form of reproduction were destroyed, the melody and harmony of a musical work could be reproduced into the ordinary notation of music writing.

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I feel high manhood on me now, A spirit-glory on my brow; I feel a thrill of music roll, Like angel-harpings, through my soul; While poesy, with rustling wings, Upon my spirit rests and sings.

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