These lists comprise a checklist for J.A. Parks song books with Chicago imprints.
POPULAR COLLECTIONS FOR BOYS and MEN
- The Boy’s Chorus Book
- Boy’s Two-Part Choruses
- Fifty Negro Spirituals
- High School Songs
- One Hundred Favorite Hymns
- Three-Part Choruses for Male Voices
FAVORITE COLLECTIONS For TREBLE VOICES
- Fifty Favorite Hymns
- The Girls’ Chorus Book S.A. & S.S.A.
- Girls’ Three-Part Choruses
- Girls’ Two-Part Choruses
- Sacred Two-Part Choruses
- Secular Three-part Choruses
- Secular Two-part Choruses
- Twelve Famous Irish Songs S.S.A.
- Twelve Famous Scottish Songs S.S.A.
Only side-by-side comparison or accurate collation can determine how the Chicago imprints differ from their York counterparts. For example, the Chicago edition of Boy’s Two-Part Choruses has 8 fewer pages than its York counterpart.
In addition to the song books, at least portions of Parks’ Octavo music catalog was published with Chicago covers. Examples that have come to our attention include:
- No. 2 The Lord is My Shepherd (S.A.T.B.)
- No. 1258 Take My Hand (S.A.T.B.)
- No. 1720 O Holy Night (S.S.A.)