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Title: The Ultimate Broadway Fake Book - 4th Edition by Stanley Green ISBN: 0-7935-8259-8 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 October, 1984 Format: Plastic Comb Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Worth the money
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: not for theory challenged
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, Not Great
Comment: 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.
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Title: The Ultimate Fake Book - 3rd Edition : C Edition by Hal Leonard, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0793529395 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Movie Fake Book - 4th Edition by Hal Leonard, Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 079358244X Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Your First Fake Book by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0793585031 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Ultimate Christmas Fake Book - 4th Edition : for Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Electronic Keyboard and All "C" Instruments by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0793585414 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: How to Play from a Fake Book by Blake Neely ISBN: 0634002066 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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