The Great Family Songbook: A Treasury of Favorite Folk Songs, Popular Tunes, Children's Melodies, International Songs, Hymns, Holiday Jingles and More for Piano and Guitar.

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I ordered this book to use during my weekly piano-playing visits to a local nursing home. This book provides music for many classic favorite songs in a variety of categories--children's, nostalgic, patriotic, hymns, Christmas, and American folk. The music is written at a level for an intermediate pianist, and carries the melody line in the accompaniment. The residents enjoy the music and sing along with many of the songs. The only criticism I have is that the book does not have a spiral binding; since it is fairly thick, it has to be propped open.

-----Lawrence J. It is a guide to our musical heritage and, as such, a peek at us.I like the family nature of the collection with some material for the very young and some for us who are not so young.

The songbook is like an old fashioned tv show, suitable for everyone in the family to enjoy together. As many of the other reviewers have noted, this is a spectacular collection of American songs.

It is a guide to the American musical soul, to our values, our fascinations, our interests. Just flipping through the pages provided a nostalgic journey as I heard the tunes in my head.

But beyond being simply a collection of wonderful songs, this book is fascinating at another level. The generous selection is carefully made.

Epstein, author of Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan

I gave this song book to a friend as a gift and she was very pleased to receive it. It's a good resource for sing-alongs at the piano or guitar. The arrangements are within reach of beginning or intermediate pianists.

This songbook is great. Excellent quality, the pages are of a heavy quality.One thing that makes this book so good is that each song has a small biography of the song. How it came into being, the year, ETC.It has a great many different styles of songs and they are listed by category You can't go wrong with this book.The Great Family Songbook: A Treasury of Favorite Folk Songs, Popular Tunes, Children's Melodies, International Songs, Hymns, Holiday Jingles and More for Piano and Guitar.

The Great Family Songbook is a fabulous collection of songs, along with the piano and guitar music and brief descriptions of the history of each song. I can still remember one of my favorite classes in elementary school was music class. I always loved to sing and we would sing wonderful folk songs such as:- "Skip to My Lou," - "I've Been Workin' on the Railroad," - "On Top of Old Smoky," classic patriotic songs like:- "America the Beautiful,"- "Yankee Doodle,"- "Red River Valley,"children's songs such as:- "This Old Man,"- "Old MacDonald,"- "B-I-N-G-O,"and even Christmas songs (yes, we DID celebrate Christmas when I was in school)., hymns, spirituals, international folk songs, ragtime songs, and much more. Although I normally prefer hardcover books, the only complaint I have about the book is that it's difficult to lay flat with the hardcover binding. Otherwise, it brought back many wonderful memories from my elementary school music classes and now I look forward to teaching my own children the classic songs.I think the book would make a terrific addition to homeschool libraries for parents who want to make sure their children are also able to enjoy the folk songs, holiday favorites, classics, show tunes, and more.Sonya Haskins, author of The Homeschooler's Book of Lists