songbook
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of songbook
before 1000; Old English sang-bōc service book (not recorded in ME); song, book
Example Sentences
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The most valuable songbook of the century now belonged to a television baron.
In the home, a rich family might have one of the new phonographs that played music stored on wax cylinders, but most families were still making their own music, using sheet music or songbooks.
Jonathan sat on the ground and pretended to look at a songbook.
From Literature
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Usually at songbook shows, the vocalists are the focus of our attention, with the musicians, even if they are onstage, as they are here, taking a backseat.
Founded in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honours those "whose work represents a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook".
From BBC
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