0 a book containing a collection of songs showing both their words and their music --
To be sure, we still know little about the affordability of non-scholarly works - songbooks, tracts, short fictions, medical manuals, household encyclopedias, and so forth.
Incidentally, one could also build up a good repertoire of songs without having a single songbook at all.
And vice versa, plays contain references to songbooks.
This was an argument that was used time and again in songbooks: what is inside does not match the outward appearance.
The songbooks displayed great religious diversity, so one would have expected the various denominations to join battle.
In paintings with a real songbook, that is to say with pages filled almost entirely with text, there is no actual singing.
The source with the greatest number of illustrations of songbooks is the songbook itself.
Consequently, songbooks are an indispensable source of information about the use of music on the stage.
