Great American Songbook

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musical canon repertoire

The Great American Songbook is a canon of influential early-20th-century American popular songs and jazz standards, primarily from Broadway and Hollywood, that have become enduring classics in vocal and instrumental performance.

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All labels observed (24)

Label Occurrences
Great American Songbook canonical 151
American songbook 6
Great American Songbook repertoire 6

Statements (68)

Predicate Object
instanceOf musical canon ⓘ
repertoire ⓘ
alsoKnownAs American Standards ⓘ
Standards repertoire ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
culturalSignificance considered a core repertoire for jazz musicians ⓘ
forms a standard repertoire for cabaret and traditional pop singers ⓘ
describedAs canon of influential American popular songs ⓘ
collection of enduring jazz standards ⓘ
floruit 1920s ⓘ
1930s ⓘ
1940s ⓘ
1950s ⓘ
genre jazz ⓘ
popular music ⓘ
show tunes ⓘ
hasNotablePerformer Billie Holiday ⓘ
Bing Crosby ⓘ
Ella Fitzgerald ⓘ
Frank Sinatra ⓘ
Louis Armstrong ⓘ
Mel Tormé ⓘ
Nat King Cole ⓘ
Sarah Vaughan ⓘ
Tony Bennett ⓘ
hasNotableSong All the Things You Are ⓘ
Embraceable You ⓘ
I Got Rhythm ⓘ
It Had to Be You ⓘ
Misty ⓘ
My Funny Valentine ⓘ
Night and Day ⓘ
Over the Rainbow ⓘ
Someone to Watch Over Me ⓘ
Stardust ⓘ
Summertime ⓘ
The Way You Look Tonight ⓘ
They Can't Take That Away from Me ⓘ
hasNotableSongwriter Cole Porter ⓘ
Duke Ellington ⓘ
Fats Waller ⓘ
George Gershwin ⓘ
George M. Cohan ⓘ
Harold Arlen ⓘ
Hoagy Carmichael ⓘ
Ira Gershwin ⓘ
Irving Berlin ⓘ
Jerome Kern ⓘ
Jimmy Van Heusen ⓘ
Johnny Mercer ⓘ
Lorenz Hart ⓘ
Oscar Hammerstein II ⓘ
Richard Rodgers ⓘ
hasPart Broadway show tune ⓘ
Hollywood film song ⓘ
Tin Pan Alley song ⓘ
jazz standard ⓘ
inception early 20th century ⓘ
influencedBy Broadway theater ⓘ
surface form: Broadway theatre

Hollywood film musicals ⓘ
Tin Pan Alley era ⓘ
surface form: Tin Pan Alley
language English ⓘ
timePeriod World War II era ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ
postwar era ⓘ
typicalForm song ⓘ
usedIn instrumental performance ⓘ
vocal performance ⓘ

Referenced by (206)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Get Happy → partOfTradition → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Cole Porter → movement → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Stardust → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Stardust → isStandardIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: American popular song repertoire
Verve Records → catalogIncludes → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great American Songbook recordings
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album → associatedStyle → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great American Songbook repertoire
Baby, It’s Cold Outside → isStandard → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' → isStandardIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: American songbook
As Time Goes By → musicalEra → Great American Songbook ⓘ
As Time Goes By → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Harold Arlen → movement → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Mountain Greenery (song) → isStandardIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
subject surface form: Mountain Greenery
Where or When (song) → isPartOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
subject surface form: Where or When
Manhattan (song) → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: American popular songbook
Manhattan (song) → isStandardIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Isn't It Romantic? (jazz standard) → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
subject surface form: Isn't It Romantic?
I Could Write a Book (jazz standard) → includedIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
subject surface form: I Could Write a Book
this entity surface form: Great American Songbook repertoire
Thou Swell (jazz standard) → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
subject surface form: Thou Swell
Thou Swell (jazz standard) → associatedWithEra → Great American Songbook ⓘ
subject surface form: Thou Swell
this entity surface form: Golden Age of American popular song
Lover (jazz standard) → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Blue Moon → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
My Funny Valentine → isStandardIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
The Lady Is a Tramp → era → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Isn't It Romantic? → associatedWith → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered → includedIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
This Can't Be Love → era → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Have You Met Miss Jones? → partOfRepertoire → Great American Songbook ⓘ
I Could Write a Book → hasStyle → Great American Songbook ⓘ
I Could Write a Book → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
With a Song in My Heart → hasInfluenced → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: American popular songbook
With a Song in My Heart → includedIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Great American Songbook
With a Song in My Heart → isPartOfTradition → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tin Pan Alley song tradition
Thou Swell → associatedWithMovement → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Johnny One Note → era → Great American Songbook ⓘ
You Took Advantage of Me → includedIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Lover → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
My Heart Stood Still → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
It Might as Well Be Spring → era → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: Golden Age of American popular song
Falling in Love with Love → isStandard → Great American Songbook ⓘ
First Lady of Song → associatedWith → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Ella and Louis → features → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: Great American Songbook standards
You Are My Lucky Star → partOfTradition → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Sophie Milman → hasGenreRepertoire → Great American Songbook ⓘ
I Got Rhythm → includedIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Great American Songbook
Embraceable You → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Bidin' My Time → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
American popular music standards repertoire → relatedConcept → Great American Songbook ⓘ
Night and Day → partOf → Great American Songbook ⓘ
I Get a Kick Out of You → includedIn → Great American Songbook ⓘ