See choirbook on Wiktionary
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Rothenberg, The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music, page 154:", "text": "Whereas the four who hover behind Mary sing a cantilena-style Ave regina caelorum from rotuli, the angelic choir in heaven is divided into two groups, each of which sings from a choirbook on a lectern.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2015, Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World, page 202:", "text": "Antonio Gardano, who began printing music in 1538, did not produce a folio choirbook until 1562, when both an edition of magnificats by Morales and a volume of masses by Kerle appeared from his press.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2016, Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell, Playing in the Cathedral: Music, Race, and Status in New Spain:", "text": "As choirbook carriers, children were in charge of taking the full-sized volumes (close to ninety pounds in average weight) from the shelves to the lectern for religious services or whenever the boys received musical instruction.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017, Daniele Filippi, Michael J. 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K. Philander Doesticks, Doesticks: What He Says, page 113:", "text": "Asked her to play a waltz , and handed her a choirbook —opened at \" Corinth \" and \" Silver street ” — found I was wrong, and turned over the leaf to \"Sinners turn, why will ye die?\"—discovered that all was not right yet, and then requested her to play some sacred music, and in my anxiety to get the right notes this time, placed before her the \"Jenny Lind Polka,\" which she at once began to play—I attempting to sing the words of \"Old Hundred,\" which didn't seem to jibe.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1991, Retha M. 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