On Mar 29, 2006, at 7:42 AM, James Gilbert wrote:
I work at a music store in the sheet music department (Lipham Music in
Gainesville, FL). There are literally hundreds of such collections
available. We must have 20 or so in stock that cover the 1920's-1950's,
not to mention musicals. Hal Leonard and Alfred (which bought Warner
Brothers music last year) publish a number of piano/vocal/guitar books
like that. Those collections are in the format of traditional sheet
music
- a vocal line at the top and a piano part below. Chord symbols for
guitar are placed above the vocal line. Usually, but not always, the
piano part contains the melody.
Yes, I've seen dozens of such anthologies in the library and such. I
was hoping that someone could recommend to me the most efficient of
them. My experience is that even the larger anthologies have only
about 40 songs, and if you start collecting several of them, you have a
lot of overlap, so that you're adding a whole book just for three or
four songs that you don't already have in one of your other books. I
was hoping to find an anthology-type book that shares the feature I've
seen in fake books, ie, a couple hundred songs, with just the
information I need and not a bunch of space spreading it out to look
like "real" sheet music.
I know the Readers Digest books that John H mentioned. I've got most of
them here at home. They're nice to have, but they're the opposite of
what I'm looking for now. They're big oversized books with extra large
print, and lots of space for titling.
Maybe I'll have to learn to fake from chord charts after all. Either
that, or I need to make my own notebook, scanning the music I do have
and reducing, trimming, cutting and pasting it in software somehow.
mdl
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