Edward Taylor Paull (February 16, 1858 – November 25, 1924) was a minor American composer, arranger, and sheet music publisher.
For this reason alone, music published by his firm has become highly collectible in the modern era and has latterly aroused interest in the composer.
This type of publication alludes to its being comparable to program music whilst never achieving the requisite complexity.
The marketing of the pieces as "descriptives" (often a latter enhanced recycling of earlier published material) enabled the same music to be sold a second time around to the wide market of beginner-level pianists who had been accustomed to fare of this kind since Pridham's "Battle March of Delhi" in the mid-19th century.
On this musical level, his true contemporaries were the British writers Ezra Read and Theo Bonheur of the same period.