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Sigma Alpha Iota has a songbook full of songs about our fraternity. Do other GLOs have songbooks, too? Or do we just have one because we are a music fraternity?

Just curious. I love learning about other GLOs, and I just got to wondering about that. :)

we have a songbook....unfortuantely i find it being sold on ebay from time to time

We had a songbook when I was in school, but I think most of the songs were from in the 1950's and 1960's.

AOII has a songbook as well, as a matter of fact International just put a new one together pretty recently if I am not mistaken.

Ditto for us.

Yep, but I don't think I can say what it's called ;)

We have a songbook, but I don't think it's been updated in a while.
We did make a CD of our ritual, serious songs last year and sent it out to each chapter. Pretty cool!!

LXA was Known as The Singing Fraternity!!!:) Has songs to get off of the Net!

Hell, we didnt sing and I dont many do!

Yep, 40/60s may have been the time! I dont think it is now!:eek:

adpi has a song book and recently one of our more talented chapters recorded a cd of them singing the songs correctly...so us more tone deaf chapters can maybe learn to sing them right...

We have a songbook.

I believe that we have both a songbook and a cd of ritual songs. Not entirely sure, though.

we have a song book too i think. . .

We have a songbook, but the last one I looked at was pretty dated. Not that it helped my chapter much, when I was in we all sang off key! Pretty said for an organization originally meant for music majors!

That is such a GREAT idea! Maybe there is a really musical DZ chapter...there were only two music majors in mine, including me :)

I have the DZ songbook and the SAI songbook. They are very similar kinds of songs. Mostly really dated, however, some of the slow songs sound WONDERFUL if you can manage to teach your chapter the harmony which I know from being songleader in DZ is VERY hard, he he! In SAI though, since we were all musicians we didn't have those problems. Still, my DZ chapter was really good at singing. The harmony was left to the few of us who had a good ear :p

Hmmm...perhaps I will make a tape of the DZ songbook singing each voice part independently so that people can learn the songs...I'll get back to you on that one!;)

Years ago, Alpha Sigma Phi (and some other fraternities as well) produced an LP vinyl record containing some of the more popular songs sung by the fraternity. Some fraternities have produced modern-day versions on CD but the expense of producing a CD is enough to turn off a fraternity or sorority from producing one.

Tri Sigma has a songbook, "Songs Sigmas Sing," that everyone gets a copy of at initiation. It contains both ritual/formal songs, as well as fun songs.

We also have a CD of music you can get from HQ!

So for those sororities that have songbooks, do you sing from them frequently (excluding rituals)? We sing songs from our red book(as we call it) from time to time, and at Convention we sang A LOT. :) We also sing a lot at Province Days and at some chapter meetings, and just at random times.

In SAI, you get the songbook along wth the membership manual when you are pledging.

In my chapter atleast of ADPi we get a bunch of copied sheets of many of our songs when we start and to help prepare for recruitment...Also we sing at weekly meetings, at ritual, and during prep for recruitment and during recruitment...

We might not have a songbook per say, but we have a glee club in the chapter!

We had a bunch of members from the 1950s come back to the house, and with the help of some new guys, reformed the Crescentaires glee club in the chapter after 50some years...we performed at the class of the 50's reunion and was a successful event.

The (big!) picture can be seen at
http://www.gammanu-wu.org/images/crescentaires.jpg

Beta Sigma Phi has a tape of songs available through International. The Book of Beta Sigma Phi also lists several songs and a Beta Sigma Phi grace.

Do other GLOs have traditional prayers as well? I'm curious...

You bet we have a songbook -- it's called "Sinfonia Songs" and every brother receives one as part of his initiation package (along with badge, shingle and wallet card). The first edition was published in 1908 (we were ten years old) and the most recent edition is the centennial edition, dating from 1998. I have copies of the 1931, 1948, 1973 and the centennial editions; that is every edition except 1908 (which I have seen go on E-bay for over $500) and 1914. LPs and CDs have made of various songs in Sinfonia Songs from time to time.

As far as singing frequently, we sing at every meeting. (We sing a lot outside meetings, too.) Aside from songs that form part of the meeting format itself, most chapters usually set aside time at each meeting just for singing together. I'm telling you -- chapters (of any GLO) that don't sing together regularly don't know what they're missing. No matter how contentiously an issue may been debated during a meeting, it's hard to hold onto hard feelings or forget your brotherhood when you put your arms around each others shoulders and sing together for a while.

I agree 110%! We, too, sing at every single meeting. The SAI Chorale (which is quite lovely, in case you guys have never heard it) is our trademark song. It is sung at every single SAI meeting, function, etc etc. Plus at other get-togethers we sing from the Songs of SAI book. I know at naitonal Convention, whenever they were setting up for something, we'd use the extra time to sing! And, trust me, there is NOTHING more beautiful than almost 1000 SAIs all singing together! :)

And our Sinfonians here sing all the time. I just love the Serenade to a Girl song! Sooo cute! :D