Sheet Music, The Twentieth Century Rag
date: label: date made
content: 1914
notes: label: Description
content: Sixteenth century Protestant European scholars introduced the practice of describing past times in hundred-year intervals known as centuries and used it to group events together chronologically. By the twentieth century, this practice had been adopted in popular song. "The 20<sup>th</sup> Century Rag" had words by Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie, with music by Maurice Abrahams.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Arno Borst, <I>The Ordering of Time: from the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer</I>, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 103.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Music
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3086.026
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3086.026
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheet Music
label: Object Type
content: Sheet Music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 27 cm x 35 cm; 1/32 in x 10 5/8 in x 13 25/32 in