Sheet Music: Parade
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| Type | Album Sheet Music | [[file:|200px|border]] | [[file:|200px|border]] | |
| For | Piano, Guitar, Vocals | |||
| Publisher | Warner Bros Publishing Inc (Executive Selling Agent for United States and Canada) | |||
| Pages | 60 | |||
| Dimensions | 23 x 30.2 cm | |||
| Catalog Number | VF1308 | |||
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| Price | $10.95 (original) | |||
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| A softcover songbook compilation of sheet music for the 12 songs featured on Prince’s eighth full-length studio album, Parade.
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. Spoken words are published in italics. Under these are the complementary treble and bass staves for piano, all in standard musical notation. For the instrumental, Venus De Milo, the score simply comprises the treble and bass staff for piano. 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, musical passages of some songs and some of Prince's lead vocal and spoken words are often not included. The arrangement for each song is presented in the same key as the original recording. Design and other content The songbook seeks to replicate the black and white look of the album cover and content. The book's front and back covers replicate the photographs from the album's outer gatefold sleeve. However, the title lettering. 'PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION/PARADE' now runs across the top and down the right side of the front cover, and is repeated running up the left edge and along the top of the back cover. The back cover footer also includes publisher details (corporate logo and contact address), book price and catalog code (right). The book's spine is white with the same title lettering in black at the top, and 'Printed in the U.S.A.' towards the bottom, followed by the catalog code. The inside front cover replicates the title arrangement on the back cover, but now in white against a black background. Page 1 has a promotional black and white photograph of Prince, seated holding finger cymbals in his right hand and a tamborine in front of him. The wording, 'WITH LOVE THERE IS NO DEATH' appears as if spray-painted above Prince, and to right of the image, Prince has written the message, 'LOVE GOD' (vertically) with his signature beneath. The image, which was likely shot at the video shoot for Mountains, did not appear as part of the original Parade album artwork, but was sold as a poster during the Parade tour in 1986. The bottom of page 1 has copyright notices for corporate rights held relating to photography, art and music in the book. Pages 2 and 3 almost replicates the black and white collage (created by Ann Field, but uncredited in the book) that previously featured as the gatefold album's inside artwork. Due to the difference in dimensions and proportion, the collage has ben marginally cropped (mostly at the bottom). Whereas the album artwork included various handwritten signed messages from Prince and members of The Revolution, the collage version in the book does not have these. Page 4 of the book has the second photographic collage previously used on one side of the album's inner vinyl sleeve. Again due to scaling, the collage as it appears in the book has again been marginally cropped (top and sides) with the lower part of the page left with a black background. Page 5 of the book is the Contents page. Against a black background, the album song titles are listed alphabetically underneath the heading, CONTENTS, with the corresponding page number to the right of each title, all justified to the right side of the page (in white, uppercase lettering). The sheet music starts on page 6, with each song printed in the running order of the album. For the first page of each song's sheet music, the song title is printed (top center) in bold uppercase, and beneath reads, 'Words and Music by' followed underneath by the credited writer(s), again in bold lettering. Each title page also has CONTROVERSY MUSIC copyright notice for the year of the album release. The inside back cover is plain black. | ||||
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