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Definition of Songbooks

1. songbook [n] - See also: songbook

Lexicographical Neighbors of Songbooks

Literary usage of Songbooks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades by Debbie Miller (2002)
"In addition to their repetition, rhythm, and rhyme, my reasons for choosing songbooks and singing songs are many: • They're fun! ..."

2. "The Star Spangled Banner": (revised and Enlarged from the "Report" on the by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, Library of Congress Music Division (1914)
"Nevertheless the fact of absence is suggestive, as is the fact that of our 89 school songbooks published in America between 1834 and 1860 and classified as ..."

3. "The Star Spangled Banner": (revised and Enlarged from the "Report" on the by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, Library of Congress Music Division (1914)
"Nevertheless the fact of absence is suggestive, as is the fact that of our 89 school songbooks published in America between 1834 and 1860 and classified as ..."

4. Davison's Poetical Rhapsody by Francis Davison, Arthur Henry Bullen (1890)
"I began with " Lyrics from Elizabethan songbooks," which was followed by ... Then came "More Lyrics from the songbooks," " Lyrics from Elizabethan ..."

5. Entertaining the American Army: The American Stage and Lyceum in the World War by James William Evans, Gardner Ludwig Harding, Neysa McMein, Anita Parkhurst, Ethel Rundquist (1921)
"It would probably be difficult to find a doughboy who did not at sometime carry one of these songbooks in his khaki pocket. A bag of "makings" and a soiled ..."

6. Entertaining the American Army: The American Stage and Lyceum in the World War by James William Evans, Gardner Ludwig Harding, Neysa McMein, Anita Parkhurst, Ethel Rundquist (1921)
"... France, and wherever they could be secured in Europe, were humming off songbooks and song leaflets by the millions for distribution to the Army. ..."

7. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"... in the United States have passed through the medium of print, and owe something of their diffusion to broadsides and songbooks, or to rural newspapers. ..."

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