A song book is a book containing lyrics for songs. Song books may be simple composition books or spiral-bound notebooks. Music publishers also produced printed editions for group singing.[1][2] Such volumes were used in the United States by piano manufacturers as a marketing tool.[3]
Song books containing religious music are often called hymnals; books containing the music for hymns with minimal, or no words, are sometimes called tune books.[4][5]
See also
References
- ^ Beattie, John (1941). The Gray Book of Favorite Songs (Enlarged ed.). Chicago, IL: Hall & McCreary. OCLC: 11729190.
- ^ Dann, Hollis (1919). Twice 55 Plus Community Songs : The New Brown Book. Boston, Ma: C. C. Birchard Co. OCLC: 2343182.
- ^ The One Hundred and One Best Songs, The Cable Company, Piano Makers, Chicago, IL. 1912
- ^ Stone, Alfred (1891). The Bristol Tune Book (Third ed.). London, UK, New York, NY: Novello, Ewer & Co.
- ^ Eskew, Harry (1970), “Using Early American Hymnals and Tunebooks”, Notes, vol. 27, no. 1, p. 19, JSTOR 896750,
…in early America there were two books: the hymnal, typically with words only, and the tunebook, usually with tunes printed in open staves and frequently with only single stanzas of text. … The hymnal was produced primarily for church use, whereas the tunebook was produced for a greater variety of uses … .
External links
Media related to song books at Wikimedia Commons
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