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noun

music printed on unbound sheets of paper.

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Origin of sheet music

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby sheet music

sheet glass, sheet ice, sheeting, sheet lightning, sheet metal, sheet music, sheet pile, Sheetrock, sheet-web weaver, Sheffer's stroke, Sheffield

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How to use sheet music in a sentence

I bought some sheet music — some classical stuff that seemed around the same level I was at when I’d stopped playing, and a book of “easy” rock and pop songs.
My nemesis, the piano|Doree Shafrir|August 27, 2021|Vox
Formal recipes are like sheet music, he explains, a useful tool for learning by mimicking.
No-Recipe Recipes Aren’t a Fad; They’re as Old as Cooking Instruction Itself|Marian Bull|July 14, 2021|Eater
My uncles sang, my mom could read sheet music, my granddad taught everyone music, and my grandma played the organ.
‘Lovers Rock’—The Story Behind The Music In Steve McQueen’s Tribute To Reggae|cmurray|November 28, 2020|Essence.com
If DNA is printed sheet music, RNA-induced epigenetic mechanisms are like improvisational cuts and arrangements that might conduct learning and memory.
Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis - Facts So Romantic|Marco Altamirano|October 20, 2020|Nautilus

One outside-the-boxer posted the sheet music for Take 5, composed by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Most Creative ‘Net Neutrality’ Comments on the FCC Website|Abby Haglage|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A quick cut reveals the brothers gingerly hiding their next piece of sheet music.
‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Is This Oscar Season’s Breath of Fresh Air|Kevin Fallon|December 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I then move things around, figuring out the larger orchestration, almost like a piece of sheet music.
Benjamin Percy: How I Write|Noah Charney|June 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I shuffle through the sheet music, avoiding tunes in keys with more than two sharps or flats, until I hit on “Old Shanghai.”
Beck’s Album ‘Song Reader’ Is All Sheet Music. We Take It for a Spin|Malcolm Jones|December 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Instead, in a format more at home in 1912 than 2012, Beck has given us 20 new songs on sheet music.
Beck’s Album ‘Song Reader’ Is All Sheet Music. We Take It for a Spin|Malcolm Jones|December 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Adolescents listening to the latest songs stimulate the demand for popular sheet music.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
"Gracious, that sounds like a new nine-cent piece of sheet music," murmured Dick.
The Rover Boys on the Farm|Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
The sorting and packing of this consignment of sheet music was handled by Sergt.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell
But little more than a year has elapsed since the publication of sheet music was begun by this firm.
The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852|Ben Casseday
I came for leopard skins, thought I, and the owner sends me sheet music instead.
The Human Drift|Jack London

British Dictionary definitions for sheet music

sheet music

noun

the printed or written copy of a short composition or piece, esp in the form of unbound leaves

music in its written or printed form

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