The Musical Courier was a 19th and 20th century American music trade publication which began publication in 1880 and became noted as preeminent in its field.

The publication included editorials, obituaries, announcements, scholarly articles and investigatory writing about musical instruments and music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 in general. These included "construction practices, descriptions, tools, exhibitions and collections, new technologies, and laws and legal actions" relating to the music industry. There were articles on "companies and manufacturers of instruments, . . . entries on patents, trade marks, and designs for new or improved instruments," as well as reporting on "African-American music and culture, women's rights

Women's rights

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, John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....

, Antonin Dvorak

Antonín Dvorák

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 and the influence of the rise of Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

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 on music in Europe."

In 1897, Marc A. Blumenberg, the publisher, "separated the musical and industrial departments" of the magazine and began publishing the Musical Courier Extra "strictly as a trade edition."

There was also a London, England, edition, active in the 1890s.

Former University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

 professor Lisa Roma

Lisa Roma

Lisa Roma was an American soprano who toured in the United States with composer Maurice Ravel in 1928. She was chair of grand opera in the College of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles beginning in 1930...

, an operatic soprano, was the publisher and owner from 1958 to 1961.