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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
songbook
noun
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▪ Spartacus features only two originals; the other seven tracks are from the Broadway songbook of standards.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
songbook

Old English sangboc "church service book;" see song (n.) + book (n.). Meaning "collection of songs bound in a book" is from late 15c.

Wiktionary
songbook

n. A book containing songs.

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songbook

n. a book containing a collection of songs

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Songbook (Nick Hornby book)

Songbook (published in the United Kingdom as 31 Songs) is a 2002 collection of 26 essays by English writer Nick Hornby about songs and (more often) the particular emotional resonance they carry for him. In the UK, Sony released a stand-alone CD, A Selection of Music from 31 Songs, featuring 18 songs. The hardcover edition of Songbook, published in the US by McSweeney's and illustrated by Marcel Dzama, includes a CD with 11 of the songs featured in the book.

Songbook (Gordon Lightfoot album)

Songbook is a career retrospective album released by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot on the Rhino label in 1999. The album contains 88 songs covering Lightfoot's career, 16 of which are previously unreleased tracks. The only material not covered is the album Harmony which was released after Songbook.

Songbook (The Nudie Suits album)

Songbook is the first album from Auckland band The Nudie Suits. It was recorded between 1999 – 2000 on a Fostex R8 8-track recorder in St. Kevins Arcade, Auckland.

Songbook (disambiguation)

A song book, or song book, is a book containing lyrics and notes for songs.

Songbook may also refer to:

  • Songbook Entertainment, a record label founded by Troy Taylor
Songbook (musical)

Songbook (New York title The Moony Shapiro Songbook) is a musical with music by Monty Norman and book by Monty Norman and Julian More. It premiered at the Gielgud Theatre (then called "Globe Theatre"), in London on July 25, 1979, and ran for 208 performances.Directed by Jonathan Lynn with musical staging by Gillian Lynne it won the Olivier Award for the Best New Musical in 1979.

The musical opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on May 3, 1981 and closed after the 1 performance and 15 previews. Helmed again by Jonathan Lynn with musical staging by George Faison, the musical featured Gary Beach, Jeff Goldblum, Judy Kaye and Timothy Jerome as "Mooney Shapiro". All of the cast members played several characters, one of which was their real-life name. The musical received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical.

In his review for the New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that "There's the germ of a funny, spiffy satirical revue in The Moony Shapiro Songbook, the forlorn little musical at the Morosco."

Through a series of witty pastiches, the musical tells the life story of a fictional songwriter, Mooney Shapiro, born Liverpool 1908, who emigrates to New York's Lower East Side, before finding Broadway and Hollywood success (cue Gershwin and deSylva/Brown/Henderson spoofs), marrying a Swedish film star and writing for early Busby Berkeley film musicals. Mooney flees the Depression for Europe, where he joins the expat Paris scene (cue Piaf spoof) and falls for an English aristocrat, whose sister is a close friend of Hitler (cue Berlin Olympics 1936). Returning to the USA, Mooney scores an Andrews Sisters style hit, then returns to write patriotic numbers for Blitz-ed London (cue Cicely Courtneidge & Marlene Dietrich spoofs). After WW2, Mooney is back in the USA writing returning-GI hits (cue Como/Sinatra spoof) and hoe-down, mid-West feelgood Broadway musical before falling foul of McCarthyism. This brings him back to his native Liverpool (1960) where (surprise, surprise) he writes for a new pop group and a new generation (cue Beatles spoof)! The Swinging Sixties come and go, leaving Mooney stranded again, losing wife and lover, a teenage singer, who conquers the charts with an old Shapiro number reworked as a disco hit. Back on top again, the aged Mooney dies, rich in honours, with a parting song 'Nostalgia'. half-celebrating, half-mocking his long songwriting career

Songbook (Goran Bregović album)

Songbook is a 2000 compilation by Goran Bregović. It summs the results of Goran Bregović's 1990s creative work. Besides including his music for films La Reine Margot, Underground, Arizona Dream, Time of the Gypsies, and Toxic Affair, it also features such world-famous singers as Iggy Pop, Ofra Haza, Sezen Aksu, Cesária Évora and George Dalaras.

Songbook (Robbie Williams album)

Songbook is a compilation album by English pop singer Robbie Williams. It was given away for free inside the Mail on Sunday on 11 October 2009. The one-off, limited-edition album includes some of his biggest hits, several rare live performances, plus images and exclusive clips from his 2009 album, Reality Killed the Video Star. Julian Broad shot the image featured on the cover, which was taken in the same shoot where the image used for the front cover of Reality Killed the Video Star was taken.

Songbook (Angela Aki album)

Songbook is a cover album released by Angela Aki on January 11, 2012.

The album contains covers of 12 popular English songs, mostly translated into Japanese, with some original English lyrics retained.

Songbook (Woodpigeon album)

Songbook is the debut studio album by Canadian indie rock band Woodpigeon, originally released in 2006.

Vocalist/guitarist Mark Hamilton states that the album:

is a diary set to music of my return to Canada, told in flashback after the introduction of "Home as a Romanticized Concept Where Everyone Loves You Always and Forever." I wanted to wrap sad words with pretty pop music. I wanted to build a mini-orchestra with my friends. I wanted to make a record that was both small and huge, and sometimes both of those things at the same time. Some people get over things by talking about them to anyone who’ll listen, but for me, it’s a lot easier to just sing my heart out and hope whoever’s listening gets a little something out of it too.

Songbook (Chris Cornell album)

Songbook is an acoustic live album by American musician and Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, released on November 21, 2011. The live album features songs recorded during Cornell's Songbook Tour, an acoustic solo tour which took place during March–May 2011 in the US, and is his first live album as a solo artist.

The songs on the tour varied in every show, and the album was recorded during various shows on the tour, and includes songs from Cornell's whole career: solo material, Soundgarden songs, Audioslave songs, Temple of the Dog songs, as well as covers of Led Zeppelin's " Thank You" and John Lennon's " Imagine".

The album debuted on Billboard 200 at No. 69. It has sold 86,000 copies in the US as of August 2015.

Songbook (Katie Noonan album)

Songbook is a studio album by Australian musician, Katie Noonan, released in January 2013. Songbook sees Katie exploring material from throughout her career including songs from george, Elixir and her solo albums as well as five new tracks.

In a statement Noonan said; "This is a selection of songs from the last 15 years of my life. It has been really interesting going through these works and seeing my evolution as a musician and my journey from a girl to a young woman through to a wife and mother." "Spawn" was written by 'a 19-year-old girl facing the world and confronting the loss of innocence', elsewhere, "Special Ones" speaks of 'self-respect and empowerment' while "Love's My Song For You" is a tribute to 'then boyfriend, now husband and soul mate Zac,' father of Katie's sons.

“Then there are five new songs that hadn't really found a home until this particular record,” including a short piano piece. “I couldn't come up with a title, so I just called it "Untitled".. It's nice to have a little instrumental moment that was something different and a break from the vocals as well.”

An accompanying book of sheet music Songbook – The Book was also released. It features sheet music, ancedotes and rare photos. “That's something I've been meaning to do for years, because people often ask me for music, so with that I went even more into the songs and where I was and what they were about when I wrote them."

Noonan toured the album nationally from March–May 2013.

Usage examples of "songbook".

They come with guitars and bass fiddles and old songbooks, and they gather in the studio to do a radio show that you can still hear in some cities, but not in so many as you could a few years back.

Isaac Watts, found in many of the southern country songbooks of the ante bellum period.

Everywhere, the Arabic alphabet wiggled and popped, enlivening crumbling architecture with outbursts of linguistic jazz, notations from the DNA songbook, energetic markings as primal as grunts and as modem as the abstract electricity of synthesizer feedback.