Add-A-Part Records

Add-A-Part Records A type of recording in which a vocal or instrumental part of the score is omitted, to enable the listener to participate in the ensemble. It seems that the earliest specimens were practice discs issued by the Tilophane Co. in Austria in 1935. Parlophone made aria records without the voice parts in 1938. Columbia issued such records under the name Add-a-Part, covering an extensive repertoire in the mid-1940s. The missing parts were graded as easy, medium, or difficult to play…