The great song thesaurus
"This edition: chronicles the popular song from 1558 to the present; Furnishes 100 to 150 new songs listings for each year from 1980-1987; Allows recall, through a new key lyric line index, of 3,025 song titles; Compiles vast popular song information for those in radio, television, and advertising; Covers a vast range of songs--from liturgical hymns to disco, folk songs, and lieder; from sea chanteys to commercial jingles, theme songs, and award winners; lists 11,000 song titles with lyricists, composers, dates of popularity, and pertinent facts; Gives featured songs from 865 musical theatre scores and from 1,441 musical and non-musical films, television, and radio programs; Indexes 6, 163 contributing lyricists and composers; Provides a listing of 2,300 song titles by subject, key word, and category; Catalogues songs by year of popularity; Cross-references information by 10 different avenues of access; Cites record sales, Hit Parade and air play rankings, and recording artists associated with 'hit' songs"--Jacket
eBook, English, 1989
2nd ed., updated and expanded View all formats and editions
Oxford University Press, New York, 1989
Index
1 online resource (774 pages)
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The greatest songs
The award winners
Themes, trademarks, and signatures
Elegant plagiarisms
Song titles
British song titles
Lyricists and composers
American and British theatre, film, radio, and television
Thesaurus of song titles by subject, key word, and category
Lyric key lines
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011