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The music leg's floor is a set of tests, and in New Carlisle the tests are the article: the street band before institutions — no town band, cornet band or municipal band of New Carlisle surfaces in the record reached; the singing-society test, run as the checklist directs and printed at its result — NEGATIVE, no German singing society, church chorus society or ethnic chorus of this town stands in the sources read; the dance-orchestra era — no New Carlisle dance orchestra is named in the record reached for any year; the famous-name test — no documented concert by a national name in a New Carlisle room was found; the recorded record — no session cut here, no local label, and no New Carlisle musician on another's disc is documented in the sources read. What music the town demonstrably had stands at pointer size where other legs hold it: the churches' music rides inside the Religion section's congregations; the schools' music — the New Prairie bands and choirs — rides inside the Schools section, and its founding course (the department's first directors and ensembles) is a named gap (GAP-NC5-ART-3) whose settler is the New Prairie yearbook run and the Tribune's school coverage; the opera house's music plant, if the house had one, stands inside the opera-house gap above. The festival stage is documented at the festival's own strength: Hometown Days programs live performances on its Michigan Street weekend, carried in Fairs & Civic. A small town's music mostly happened in rooms the record did not keep; this section prints the searches and the silence at their true size, and names the settlers — the town press runs and the society's collections — where the sound, if it was ever written down, is written.
Sources:
- The Religion and Schools sections of this build (church music and school music at pointer, as banked).
- Hometown Days festival materials (live performances in the festival program) — carried whole in Fairs & Civic.