The Fairy Godmother Waltz Redesign

As I said I would, I redesigned The Fairy Godmother Waltz (and misspelled the composers name while I was at it too!).

Would this ever get printed in those days? No... probably not. Too many colors, and the style is nowhere near how they used to draw. This is not to say lithography would be incapable of handling the colors, just that it would be costly to do so. When I look at my sheet music, I would say that the average number of layers is about three (which I think led to some truly atrocious choices in color).

Sigh. I had such high hopes to do art nouveau, but as per usual, I did my own personal style again.

Oh, and on a more personal note. If I had a fairy godmother, I would totally want her to look like that. She looks rockin'.

The Fairy Godmother Waltz

I like this song.. mostly because it gets my imagination going on about what sort of fairy godmother the composer was trying to conjure.

However, I wish that the cover was a little more inspiring!

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From what I can tell by looking at this, they would print the same cover for several pieces that have a theme. The theme could be a composer, era, or idea (like flowers, or waltzes for example), and whatever piece was that was contained within was underlined on the cover with either a pen or a color pencil. On the cover above, you can see the blue mark six songs down. I'm not sure if the sending or receiving company did this, but whoever had the job to do that probably was bored out of their mind! Hopefully, as I research more I will figure it who did the marking!

I think I may design a cover for this though, just for the fun of it. And... I think I may base it off of my costume for Halloween this year.

The outfit is a bit modern, yes, but I'm thinking it would be fun to make it look a bit art-nouvelle-y. The only thing is that most sheet music looks like it used multi-layered lithography, and I'm not sure how I want to address that. Limiting my color pallet, and using thick lines seems to be the obvious answer. But... but... but! I like lots of bright colors! What shall I do?

We'll just have to see. I have no doubt that the cover will look nothing like anything from the era of Tin Pan Alley, but I think it will be fun to do anyway.