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Thread #2868   Message #67647
Posted By: katlaughing
02-Apr-99 - 04:07 PM
Thread Name: songbook bibliography
Subject: RE: songbook bibliography
Good question Frankits. I've got several which are out of print, too and I have a scanner.

Like you, Night Owl, it's hard for me to pass them by. The one I posted earlier as sing Out America is actually "America Sings" copyright 1935 Robbins Music Corp., also 50 cents net. There's a lot of Dvorak, Foster, patriotic sogns, as well as songs form other cultures. The ad in the back says they are "Robbins pocket-size Song Books" and included: Victory Song Book, Songs for America; Americn Cowboy Songs, Stephen Foster: Immortal memories, and 101 Hymns of the Hour of Charm (which was a radio program)

My oldest, to date, is inscribed by the recipient in 1897 and is the "Music Reader Number One: A Natural Course in Music". Has a lot of elementary theory and copositin as well as songs in it. From American Book Company by Frederic H. Ripley (principal of the Bigelow School in Boston) and Thomas Tapper (instructor in comp. & theory, Amer. College of Musicians) OOOOoooo! I am impressed!

Maybe we should have a separate thread for best loved old and out of print music books?

kat