songbook

noun

song·​book ˈsȯŋ-ˌbu̇k How to pronounce songbook (audio)
Synonyms of songbooknext
: 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. — 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 See All Example Sentences for songbook

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of songbook was before the 12th century

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