A jazz/pop term for a collection of Lead Sheets . "Classical" fake-books appear from time to time; these are collections of well-known classical themes expressed as melody line and chord chart, for use by general-business (read "jazz/pop") musicians at weddings and other functions. Actually not a bad thing- quite useful, in fact - but not really the same thing as classical sheet music.
a songbook used for improvisational music that contains the melody of a song but requires a made-up harmony
A collection of Jazz charts, published without paying royalties and thus illegal (not in the Public Domain.) For decades, a book called '1000 Standard Tunes' circulated; you can still see its grossly simplified charts, written three to a page. Some 25 years ago the "Real Book" appeared, out of the Berklee School of Music, with some 400 tunes in excellent calligraphy. This has become the standard and all Jazz musicians are expected to have a copy. More recently a number of legal fake books have been published. The best is The Ultimate Jazz Fakebook.
a fake in the form of an imitation book; used to fill bookcases of people who wish to appear scholarly
a collection of music - usually popular, traditional, ethnic and semi-classical tunes - arranged in skeletal form providing just the melody and the symbols for the accompanying chords
a collection of simplified sheet music , either transcribed manually or copied from some other source
a compilation of songs for which only the melody line and chords are given (and words, if there are any)
a condensed form of music notation that consists only of the melody line and the recommended chord progression
a music book that lists only the melody and chord changes for each tune
a collection of jazz charts, published without paying royalties and thus illegal. For decades, a book called '1000 Standard Tunes' circulated; you can still see its grossly simplified charts, written three to a page. In the 70s the "Real Book" appeared, out of the Berklee School of Music, with some 400 tunes in excellent calligraphy. This has become the standard and all jazz musicians are still expected to have a copy. The 'Monster Book' is very good. Others are a series called 'Spaces', and the 'Real Book Vol. II'. In recent years a large number of legal fake books have been published. They have much higher standards of accuracy but usually don't have as many tunes.
Song anthologies with very brief musical arrangements.
A fake book is a collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs. Each song in a fake book contains the melody line, basic chords, and lyrics - the minimal information needed by a musician to make an impromptu arrangement of a song, or "fake it."