songbook
noun
song·book
ˈsȯŋ-ˌbu̇k 
: a collection of songs
specifically
: a book containing vocal music (such as hymns)
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Contrary to Kinney's self-assessment, there are so many noted admirers of his songbook that four four full-length tribute albums are planned.
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Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
The irreplaceable Barbara Cook put her interpretive stamp on Sondheim’s songbook in her concert tributes, reanimating musical treasures through her own introspective moonlight.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
The soundtrack — out the following day, April 18, and available to preorder now — serves as a companion album to that film, featuring 11 songs from Young’s songbook stripped down to vocals, piano, and guitar.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
Its main concern is music and mimesis: to showcase Chalamet performing the Dylan songbook with a fidelity to the original beyond the vocal range of the lip-synching Larry Parks in The Jolson Story (1946) or Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
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Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
The irreplaceable Barbara Cook put her interpretive stamp on Sondheim’s songbook in her concert tributes, reanimating musical treasures through her own introspective moonlight.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
The soundtrack — out the following day, April 18, and available to preorder now — serves as a companion album to that film, featuring 11 songs from Young’s songbook stripped down to vocals, piano, and guitar.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
Its main concern is music and mimesis: to showcase Chalamet performing the Dylan songbook with a fidelity to the original beyond the vocal range of the lip-synching Larry Parks in The Jolson Story (1946) or Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Songbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/songbook. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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