Song book

Song book

A song book is a book containing lyrics and notes for songs. Song books may be simple composition books or spiral-bound notebooks. Music publishers also produced printed editions for group singing. [cite book|last=Beattie|first=John|authorlink=John Beattie|year=1941|title=The Gray Book of Favorite Songs|edition=Enlarged Edition|location=Chicago, IL|publisher=Hall & McCreary|id=OCLC: 11729190] [cite book|last=Dann|first=Hollis|authorlink=Hollis Dann|year=1919|title=Twice 55 Plus Community Songs : The New Brown Book|edition=|location=Boston, Ma|publisher=C. C. Birchard Co.|id=OCLC: 2343182] . Such volumes were used in the U.S. by piano manufacturers as a marketing tool. ["The One Hundred and One Best Songs", The Cable Company, Piano Makers, Chicago, IL. 1912 ]

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". [cite book|last=Stone|first=Alfred|authorlink=Alfred Stone|year=1891|title=The Bristol Tune Book|edition=Third edition|location=London, UK, New York, NY|publisher=Novello, Ewer & Co.|id=]

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