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 enlarge | Creator: Hal Leonard Corp.
Brand: Hal Leonard
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
Buy New: $29.70
You Save: $15.30 (34%)
New (11) Used (15) from $23.73
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 441983
Media: Plastic Comb
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 9.6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0793582598
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.14
UPC: 073999400465
EAN: 9780793582594
ASIN: 0793582598
Publication Date: October 1, 1984
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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 Worth the money August 3, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have so much fun playing Broadway songs on my violin. I really do. The nice thing about this book, especially for violin, is that it only shows the melody in treble clef so it eliminates the annoying page-turning you have to deal with when playing from a piano book. Though sometimes I get sad the book doesn't have a song I like in it, but it really has a great selection, one or two songs from any Broadway you can think of and many pages of music from greats like Les Miz and Phantom. Well worth the investment.
 not for theory challenged April 30, 2001
11 out of 26 found this review helpful
Definitely not for the theory challenged as it includes only melody lines and chords -- not full arrangements. Great for auditions if you're working with a seasoned accompanist with solid chord theory and ability to play from charts. Otherwise your audition could trip up on a mediocre pianist scrambling to improvise.
Good, Not Great March 12, 2001
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a good buy for a pro pianist like me who might get requests for tunes I've never heard of from shows I've never seen. It has three indexes: by tune, by show, and by composers and lyricists.
One of the best things in the book is an alphabetical show-by-show synopsis, containing information about each show's history, its major personnel, and its plot.
However -- and it's a BIG however; in fact, several howevers: an awful lot of the songs are second-rate and I can't imagine getting requests for them, or even wanting to play them myself.
The book proclaims its inclusion of "great songs" from several more recent shows such as "Rent"; gimme a break -- these songs are barely listenable, much less "great."
Throughout the book, many of the chord changes are incorrect (this is a musician's constant complaint about ALL fake books).
Most of the songs do not include the verse (and for Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin, and Kern these are often essential parts of the song). And there are inexplicable omissions.
For example: (1) Some of the included shows are lacking some of their best songs: "The Nervous Set" omits "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most," "Finian's Rainbow" omits "Necessity." "The Merry Widow" omits "The Merry Widow Waltz." "Mack and Mabel" omits "I Promise You a Happy Ending." (2) Some excellent shows are missing altogether. No "L'il Abner." No Cy Coleman's "I Love My Wife." And Leonard Bernstein is represented only by two songs from "Wonderful Town"; no "Candide," no "On the Town," no "West Side Story."
And of course there are many songs I already own in other collections, although the book is useful as a one-stop source for all of these, and there are about fifty to a hundred decent to superb songs that I own nowhere else.
There is ample representation of Rodgers & Hart, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kern, Gershwin, Porter, Frank Loesser, Jerry Herman, Harold Arlen, Lerner & Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber, et al.
In the end, despite its flaws, to me the book was well worth the price.
Great book,great price October 30, 1999
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
I've used a friends copy of this book and it was time for me to get one of my own. Great selection of tunes. Amazon definitely has the best price.
Great Selection! June 26, 1999
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book definitely has an amazing selection of pieces from old and new musicals alike. Everything ranging from Carosel to Rent. Althought it is quite pricey, Amazon.com has been able to reduce it greatly.- A definite "must-have" for all you theater buffs out there!
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