Talk:Music Theory/Real Book Errata

To whomever flagged this page for deletion because it was "not a book." This is indeed a book. A series of books, actually, of sheet music. Printed on paper, bound together, sold in bookstores and meeting all the traditional descriptions of a "book." I'll add the publishing information from the endpapers so that there is less confusion. There were three collections of sheet music known as "The Real Books" which were unauthorized transcriptions of jazz songs published clandestinely. Hal Leonard Publishing has since produced legalized versions of the books that respect copyright and pay royalties to the composers- in addition to correcting numerous errata. I have addressed part of the differences between the versions of the second volume of the series, which is comprised of listing the songs missing from the Hal Leonard version. The next tasks is to create a list of songs added to the collection by Hal Leonard's transcriptionists, and then to do the same for the Real Book Volume I and Real Book Volume III. Interestingly enough, the page that discussed this set of differences on Wikipedia was deleted by someone because it was a book and they thought it belonged at Wikibooks... and, by the way, if you're going to flag an entry for deletion you should at least have the forthrightness to put a note on the discussion page detailing your reasoning. That way a public discussion can happen in this public resource.Cunamara (talk) 02:30, 15 June 2008 (UTC)