songbook

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Recent Examples of songbook 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
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Noun
  • Musicians including psych rocker Damon Krukowski and power pop songster Ted Leo have taken to X to blast out their support.
    Caitlin Harrington, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Nevertheless, the songster’s rise to stardom is mystifying.
    Quartz, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2022

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