Booklet

Booklet is the term for the small brochures, lyric- or information-sheets that come in CD covers nowadays. The booklet (this applies especially to releases where the artist doesn't only perform, but also make the music) normally comes as wonderful tiny artwork, often enhancing the personal consumption of the record. It almost always contains:

• General information on the band/artist (who is who)
• Tracklist and information on who wrote/played what on which track and where (this comes as):
• Written by
• Composed by
• Played by
• Produced by
• Recorded at
• Mixed at/by
• Engineered at/by
• Sometimes: Originally published by
• Contact adress (as well as URL)
• Often: Thanks to
• Sometimes: Information on the booklet creator

The lyrics (if any) are also printed in the booklet very often. For me fondly created booklets are a very good reason to buy a record instead of only downloading it (maybe the inferiority of booklets, widespread in popular music records where the only information in the booklet is who (other than the artist) wrote the songs and where to get merchandise, is also a reason for the declining sales figures in these music genres).

Book"let (?), n.

A little book.

T. Arnold.

 

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