Complex sentence: Historically, the term "album" was applied to a collection of various items housed in a "book" format, and in musical usage the word was used for collections of short pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century.
Split into simpler sentences: Historically, the term "album" was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of short pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century.