Your students will enjoy this collection of 24 songs for Christmas, Hanukkah, Thanksgiving and Halloween. Included are familiar favorites as well as lesser known gems. These exciting new arrangements for two cellos include a melody cello part and an accompaniment cello part. Also included are twelve original mash-ups for two cellos violas. Ten of the melody lines extend briefly into fourth position. The accompanying part remains mainly in first position. but has some difficult passagework and chords. Simplified accompaniments have also been included for the more difficult ones. Cello students can use this book along with violin and viola students to play cello/violin and cello/viola duets, as the musical selections are in the same key. Each piece includes an historical introduction. This is a new approach to holiday music making.

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Gloria in Excelsis Deo, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night, Away in a Manger and Deck the Halls, which were adapted for Cello Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas! This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard?s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.