Students' Songs: Comprising the Newest and Most Popular College Songs (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

William Henry Hills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0259403601 ISBN 13: 9780259403609

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Students' Songs: Comprising the Newest and Most Popular College Songs

Before the publication n of college-music including the songs which have had their origin and become popular within the last ten or fifteen years. All existing collections were out of date. The new songs, of which a great number had sprung into life, were nowhere to be found in print. They were known to comparatively few; and it was inevitable that. Unless they were put in permanent form, they would soon be forgotten, and lost forever.

The first edition of Students' Songs was prepared in 1880, with a view to preserving these songs, and making them accessible to all. The success of the book was immediate. The demand exceeded the supply, and the sale of the whole edition of six thousand copies in less than four months showed how urgently the need of some such collection had been felt. The second edition of Students' Songs was in reality an entirely new book. It contained none of the songs comprised in the first edition, but was made up of other wholly new songs, equal in merit and popularity. Like its predecessor, it had a most remarkable sale. The whole edition of five thousand copies was speedily exhausted; and for over a year - during which the book was out of print, owing to the inability of the compiler, through pressure of other duties, to prepare a new edition - the demand continued unabated.

The third edition of Students' Songs, published in May, 1883, comprised nearly all the songs of both the first and second editions, together with more than twenty pages of wholly new music, including all the latzst college songs of the day. In less than Six months the edition of five thousand copies was exhausted, and a new edition, in which the plates were revised and corrected, was required. Since then thirty thousand copies of the book have been disposed of; and now, in May, 1886, still another edition of five thousand copies has been printed to supply the unabated demand for these jolly and unique songs, which have done so much to make college and home life more happy. Most of the songs which the book contains are copyrighted, and to be found in no other collection.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0259403601
• ISBN 13: 9780259403609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 63