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The Tupac Shakur Collection
A songbook with sheet music and lyrics for Tupac songs, published by Alfred Publishing in late 2001. Made for musicians and collectors, not for reading.
- Publisher
- Alfred Publishing Company
- Published
- December 1, 2001
- Length
- 84 pages, paperback in sheet-music format (about 11.5 × 9 inches)
- ISBN
- 0-7579-0587-0
- Language
- English (lyrics)
The Tupac Shakur Collection is not a book about Tupac but a folio of his music. It comes from Alfred Publishing, a major US publisher of sheet music and teaching material. Library catalogs file it under songbooks: it contains arrangements of well-known Tupac songs with lyrics, so musicians can play them.
About the book
What it covers
According to the publisher, the folio gathers songs from different stages of his career. A complete, verified track list could not be found; only the publisher’s promotional lines are available, with no song titles. Nor could we confirm which instrumentation the arrangements are written for.
Assessment
A working songbook for musicians and a collector’s item, but not a source on his life or work. Anyone wanting to understand Tupac’s lyrics will do better with the albums and the books about his writing. The date sometimes given (February 2002) differs slightly from the catalogs, which give December 2001.
More titles: Books · Music: Discography.