The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library: 2 Volume Set
How can you easily find the words and music to all the popular songs of the Gay 90s?\ Where can you research the songs of particular groups, such as lumberjacks, railroad workers, cowboys, convicts, girl scouts?\ Where can you look for a unique and little-known song to add to your repertoire?\ How can you track down a composer, score, or music for a TV show or commercial?\ \ If you need the answers to these and a host of other questions about songs for the past century, here is the one...
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How can you easily find the words and music to all the popular songs of the Gay 90s? Where can you research the songs of particular groups, such as lumberjacks, railroad workers, cowboys, convicts, girl scouts? Where can you look for a unique and little-known song to add to your repertoire? How can you track down a composer, score, or music for a TV show or commercial? If you need the answers to these and a host of other questions about songs for the past century, here is the one reference source that stands above all others. A rich archive of songs The Enoch Pratt Free Library has systematically collected and indexed song books since it opened in 1886. Ten years ago, the editor of this volume undertook the monumental task of combining all previous efforts into one definitive and up-to-date reference work. The Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. It encompasses a remarkably wide variety of books that is one of the largest such collections in the country. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ethnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated, such as musicals, television shows, commercials, movies, and oratorio; and an alphabetical composer index. Bibliographic aids for easy access Song Title Index provides the name of the composer, alternative titles, and books in which the song can be found. Bibliography provides publishing information for each book. List of Composers covers each of the songs indexed. Source Index lists works from which the songs were taken, including stage plays, movies, television shows, operas, oratorios, symphonies, and other classical works
