sheet music

1. 1.

   a musical composition in printed or written form

   “she turned the pages of the music as he played”

   Broadermusical composition

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   music

Questions about sheet music

What does sheet music mean?

sheet music means "a musical composition in printed or written form".

Is sheet music a common word?

sheet music is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.