Sheet Music: 1999

1999

Sheet music details
Type	Album Sheet Music	[[file:|200px|border]]		[[file:|200px|border]]
For	Piano, Guitar, Vocals
Publisher	Universal Music Publishing Group / Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages	80
Dimensions	23 x 30.6 cm
Catalog Number	HL00306892
Other Reference	ISBN-13: 978-1-4234-3022-3
Price	$16.95 (original)
Description
A softcover songbook compilation of sheet music for the 11 songs featured on Prince’s fifth full-length studio album, 1999. Unlike other songbooks associated with albums, this was released in 2007, many years after the original album release. The front cover replicates the album cover artwork, originally hand-drawn by Prince, as a background, now with ‘Piano Vocal Guitar’ (in white, sentence case) above the larger book title ‘PRINCE 1999’ (pale yellow, upper case), both featuring top center. The distributor’s name and corporate logo are displayed bottom center of the cover. The back cover uses the same purple color for a plain background, listing the songs in the order they featured on the original album recording. Song titles are cantered with the same typeface, in bold, as that used on the original paper inner sleeves for the 2-disc LP. The lettering is in yellow, similar to its appearance on some CD back covers for the album. The bottom of the back cover displays barcodes for retail and catalog number (left corner) and ISBN numbers (right corner) in white rectangles, with publisher and distributor details in white lettering between. The book's black spine displays, again in white lettering: ‘Prince 1999’ (top), ‘Piano Vocal Guitar’ (middle) and ‘Hal Leonard’ (bottom) with the corporate logo (yellow and black). Page 1 has the front cover background (without Prince’s hand-drawn titles) in dark grey and white. Similar title information to the front cover is supplemented by ISBN-13 and ISBN-10 numbers, contact details for the distributors and a general copyright warning to protect all works contained in the book. Page 3 displays the book contents in two central columns. with page numbers placed to the left of corresponding song titles, all in white against a dark grey background, and lettering in the same typeface as the book's rear cover. Although the songs are again listed in the original album running order, the sheet music for All The Critics Love U In New York is published between Let's Pretend We're Married and D.M.S.R.. The music scores start on page 4, with each song's title using the same sans serif typeface in upper case and all lyrics printed in the same serif typeface; neither typeface was used in the original album artwork. The first page for each song states 'Words and Music by PRINCE' (top right-hand corner) and has a copyright notice: 'Copyright (C) CONTROVERSY MUSIC 1982 All Rights Controlled and Administered by UNIVERSAL MUSIC CORP. ALL Rights Reserved Used by Permission' in the page footer (center). Musical notation For each song, chord diagrams for six-string guitar are published above the musical staff, which comprises a top stave for the vocal melody and the main lyric running beneath. Under these are the complementary treble and bass staves for piano, all in standard musical notation. In common with many songbooks for popular artists, the music and lyrics are not provided as accurate transcriptions of the original album recording. In particular, passages of longer songs and Prince's lead vocal (including spoken words as a song fades) are not included. In some instances (Little Red Corvette, All The Critics Love U In New York, D.M.S.R., Free, Lady Cab Driver and International Lover) are provided with an Optional Ending in addition to the published Repeat and Fade. In contrast, the published score for Delerious only provides a Repeat and Fade Coda rather than reflecting the song ending featured on the album. All songs are transcribed in the same key as the original recording apart from Little Red Corvette, which is marked 'Recorded half a step higher'. This is likely done to make the song easier to play for less-proficient musicians.

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