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Thread #69315 Message #1174355
Posted By: Joe Offer
29-Apr-04 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: School Songbook Index PermaThread
Subject: School Songbook Index PermaThread
This is an edited PermaThread, and all messages posted here are subject to editing and deletion.
This thread is intended to serve as a forum for indexing school songbooks.
How to use Songbook Indexes
Use [CTRL-F] to find the song you want, and then post a request for the song at the bottom of the thread. We'll contact the songbook owner and obtain the lyrics, and we'll post an answer or a link in your request message.
- Silver Burdett Making Music Your Own Series (1960's)
- Making Music Your Own, Book 5 (Silver Burdett, 1971, Grade 5)
- Making Music Your Own, Book 6 (Silver Burdett, 1965, Grade 6)
- Silver Burdett Music For Living Series (1950's)
- Music Through The Day (Silver Burdett, 1956, Grade 1)
- Music in Our Town (Silver Burdett, 1956, Grade 2)
- Music Now and Long Ago (Silver Burdett, 1956, Grade 3)
- Music Near and Far (Silver Burdett, 1956, Grade 4)
- Music In Our Country (Silver Burdett, 1956, Grade 5)
- Music Around the World (Silver Burdett, 1956, Grade 6)
- Silver Burdett New Music Horizons Series (1940's)
- New Music Horizons Fifth Book Silver Burdett, 1946 & 53, Grade 5)
- The Music Hour Series (1930's)
- The Music Hour (Silver Burdett, 1929, Grade 4)
- The Music Hour, One-Book Course (Silver Burdett, 1932)
- Music Highways and Byways (Silver Burdett, 1936, Ungraded)
- Silver Burdett Music (Silver Burdett, 1975, Junior High)
- Silver Burdett Music, Centennial Edition (Silver Burdett, 1985, Grade 4)
- Silver Burdett Music, Centennial Edition (Silver Burdett, 1985, Ungraded)
- Follett Together We Sing Series
- Together We Sing (All Grades Edition) (Follett, 1950)
- Music Through the Year (Follett, 1956)
- Voices of the World (Follett, 1956)
- Music Across Our Country (Follett, 1956)
- Voices of America (Follett, 1960)
- Music Sounds Afar (Follett, 1958)
- Music Round the Clock (Follett, Grades 1-2)
- Proudly We Sing (Follett, upper grades) - missing
- Mason Brothers Song-Garden Series
- "The National Song Book" volume 1 (1906, Boosey & Co)
- English Folk Songs for Schools Collected and arranged by Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil J. Sharp (J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., n.d. [1906])
- BBC Time & Tune Series
- Singing Together (BBC, 1990)
- BBC Singing Together (unrelated)
- Online School Songbooks
- The World of Music (Ginn, 1936, grade not cited)
- Third Music Reader (Ginn & Heath, 1880)
- The School Songbook (Birchard, 1911)
- A Book of Songs (Schirmer, 1924)
- The Lake High School Song Book (Scott, Forsman, 1915)
- Marching Songs for Young Crusaders (National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1904)
School songbooks often have abbreviated or sanitized versions of songs - but they also often have tunes that we may be missing, which is one reason why I started this thread.
To find a song, use [CTRL-F] on your keyboard, and put in a pertinent word from the song title.
from Q:In late 1956, Silver Burdett books for grades 1-2 became:
1.1 and 1.2: I Like the Country.
Among the Follett books, Music Round the Clock is for lower grades, the rest seem to be unspecified.
Online Songbooks
(from Masato Sakurai)
Two 19th-century school songbooks are available online:
School melodies : containing a choice collection of popular airs with original and appropriate words composed expressly for the use of schools / by J.W. Greene.
Greene, J. W. (James Whitman)
72 p. of music ; 11 x 17 cm.
Boston : Morris Cotton, c1852.
Dainty songs for little lads and lasses : for use in the kindergarten, school and home / by James R. Murray.
Murray, James R. (James Ramsey), 1841-1905.
1 score (160 p.) ; 16 cm.
Cincinnati : John Church Co., c1887.
Other 19th-century school songbooks online (at American Memory):
School Songs: Grammar School, no. 1, by H. W. Fairbank (Chicago: Winchell & Co., S. R., 1883)
The American School Music Reader: A Systematically Graded Course of Instruction in Music for Public Schools, Second Book, by L.O. Emerson and W.S. Tilden (Boston: Ditson & Co., Oliver, 1874)
American School Music Reader (Boston: Ditson & Co., 1874) [cover & title page lacking]
Bailey's School Songs, by E. H. Bailey (Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1880)
Bailey's School Songs And Music Reader, by Eben H. Bailey (Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1880)
Supplementary Music to the High School Music Reader, by Julius Eichberg (Boston: Ginn Heath & Co., 1884)
Old schoolbook on line: The New England Primer, 1777.
Primer
It has some interesting rhymed couplets tied to the alphabet, "Dr. Watts's Cradle Hymn," verses for children (threatening 'dreadful fiery Hell,' etc.