On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Mark D Lew wrote:
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.
Go ahead and give that a try Mark. It's not rocket science, and it
can be great fun. It will give you a greater sense of mastery and
familiarity with the patterns of what I call "harmonic grammar." Ask
questions here, OT though they may be. There are many informed and
generous people who will be likely to help.
The most "intellectually" organized jazz theory book I know is
written by Andrew Jaffe, and I think there is a new edition of it by
Advance Music. Mark Levine's book, published by Sher, is also good.
Chuck
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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