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- noun Plural form of
songbook .
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Examples
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So while any number of older singers were recording "songbooks" on Concord, Merrill teamed up once again with arranger Gil Evans to reprise their 1956 triumph DREAM OF YOU, Evans first full-scale arranging job before he joined forces with Miles Davis for MILES AHEAD.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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Dr. Jennifer Batt, a lecturer at Oxford University, discovered the short, steamy poem -- attributed to Milton -- while sorting through the Harding Collection of poetry anthologies and songbooks at Oxford.
John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010
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No tunes are guaranteed for any show, but certain songbooks are sure to be opened.
Musical History Tour: Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock revisit the '60s 2011
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It's now experiencing a renaissance of sorts in Sacred Harp songbooks and conventions.
Shape-Note Singing Lives On Through Small Dedicated Following The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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No tunes are guaranteed for any show, but certain songbooks are sure to be opened.
Musical History Tour: Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock revisit the '60s 2011
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Dr. Jennifer Batt, a lecturer at Oxford University, discovered the short, steamy poem -- attributed to Milton -- while sorting through the Harding Collection of poetry anthologies and songbooks at Oxford.
John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010
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Listening to music by Ives is like wandering through a memory box filled with old photos, sing-along songbooks, political pamphlets, yellowed poems, the bass drum of a big brass band, remnants of an old watering hole, and perhaps a pair of boxing gloves.
Denk and Ives, Partners in Pianism Stuart Isacoff 2010
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Dr. Jennifer Batt, a lecturer at Oxford University, discovered the short, steamy poem -- attributed to Milton -- while sorting through the Harding Collection of poetry anthologies and songbooks at Oxford.
John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010
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And his correspondence with Thomson shows him vehemently defending the use of the vernacular, even—especially—in songbooks intended for the elegant drawing rooms of London.
Visiting an Auld Acquaintance Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011
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Yet the group isn't a re-creation or a continuation of anything so much as a living testimony to how jazz, even into the 1960s, was about great tunes, and how Cannonball Adderley assembled one of its greatest songbooks.
On a Mission for Tradition Will Friedwald 2011
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