In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Adeste Fideles, Joy To The World and Hark The Herald Angels Sing, 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.

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Adeste Fideles, Joy To The World and Hark The Herald Angels Sing, which were adapted for String Ensemble, 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.

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Adeste Fideles, Joy To The World and Hark The Herald Angels Sing, which were adapted for String 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.

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 Trumpet Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

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 Clarinet Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

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.

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Oh Come Little Children, Greensleeves, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Crown Him With Many Crowns, which were adapted for String Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Oh Come Little Children, Greensleeves, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Crown Him With Many Crowns, which were adapted for String Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Oh Come Little Children, Greensleeves, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Crown Him With Many Crowns, which were adapted for String Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Oh Come Little Children, Greensleeves, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Crown Him With Many Crowns, which were adapted for String Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Oh Come Little Children, Greensleeves, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Crown Him With Many Crowns, which were adapted for String Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Oh Come Little Children, Greensleeves, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Crown Him With Many Crowns, which were adapted for String Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Oh Come Little Children, Greensleeves, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Crown Him With Many Crowns, which were adapted for String Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Oh Come Little Children, Greensleeves, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Crown Him With Many Crowns, which were adapted for String Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

In this special Christmas book, the best known and most traditional Christmas songs are gathered here: Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Oh Come Little Children, Greensleeves, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and Crown Him With Many Crowns, which were adapted for String Quartet, they makes us travel through this time of celebration, joy and harmony between peoples and makes us feel the true spirit of Christmas!

11 famous christmas songs like carol and pops for Intermediate or advanced piano player.The following songs are included;O Christmas TreeAmazing GraceJingle BellsHark! The Herald Angels SingAngels We Have Heard on HighDeck the hall with boughs of hollyJoy to the WorldThe First NoelWinter WonderlandSilent NightWe Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Sounds like: Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, Liz Story's "The Gift", George Winston's "December", early Windham Hill solo piano artists, and "A Winter's Solstice" compilations.


Transcribed by: David Shenton ( https://www.shentonmusic.com/ ) verbatim to the sound recording

Contents:
1. Bring A Torch (Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella)
2. Children Go Where I Send Thee / The Holly & The Ivy
3. Star Of Wonder (We Three Kings of Orient Are)
4. Silent (Silent Night, Holy Night)
5. Midnight (It Came Upon the Midnight Clear)
6. What Child Is This?
7. Greensleeves (homage to Liz Story)
8. Three Ships (I Saw Three Ships, Come Sailing In)
9. The Coventry Carol (Lully, Lulla, Lullay)
10. Sing We Now Of Christmas (Noël Nouvelet)
11. Carol Of The Bells

Album & Songbook review by: Kathy Parsons (MainlyPiano.com):

I have discovered a real wealth of great solo piano Christmas CDs this year! Isadar?s In Search For the Meaning of Christmas definitely falls into this category! Thoughtful, introspective, and a bit moody, Isadar?s arrangements are true to the carols (with some small melody changes in ?Bring a Torch? and ?Carol of the Bells? that bother me just a little) and still seem very personal. ?Bring a Torch?, ?The Holly and the Ivy?, and ?I Saw Three Ships? are given a lighthearted, joyful treatment. ?Star of Wonder (We Three Kings)?, ?What Child Is This??, ?The Coventry Carol?, and ?Sing We Now of Christmas? are all minor, somber, reverent pieces, and all four are given loving arrangements that keep the dark, mysterious nature of the songs and reflect Isadar?s own sensibilities. ?Carol of the Bells? and Isadar's take on Liz Story?s arrangement of ?Greensleeves? are energetic without losing all abandon. ?Silent Night? and ?It Came Upon a Midnight Clear? present us with a very cold, deep solitude - both feel like late night with moonlight reflecting off the snow. Both are moody, but very beautifully so. George Winston?s ?December? is one of my all-time favorite holiday albums, and I feel In Search For the Meaning of Christmas holds up exceptionally well next to it. This is an excellent collection of Christmas music, and I highly recommend it!

In Search For the Meaning of Christmas is the companion songbook to Isadar?s 1999 solo piano release by the same name. Meticulously transcribed note-for-note by David Shenton of New York Music Publishing, the music is faithful to the recording in every way (except for the pianist - YOU!). The scores are clear, concise, and easy to read, and also include chord indications for improvisation or the use of instruments other than or in addition to the piano. Isadar?s arrangements cover a whole range of emotions, from very dark and somber to joyful and buoyant. All of the pieces from the CD are here, including Isadar?s homage to Liz Story and her beautiful version of ?Greensleeves.? My personal favorites of the eleven songs in this book are the bright and cheerful ?Bring A Torch,? ?What Child Is This??, ?Greensleeves,? the darkly gorgeous ?The Coventry Carol,? and ?Sing We Now of Christmas.? Other titles that I really like are ?Children Go Where I Send Thee/The Holly and the Ivy,? ?Star of Wonder (We Three Kings)," ?Carol of the Bells,? and the effervescent ?Three Ships.? ?Silent? (Silent Night) and ?Midnight? (It Came Upon a Midnight Clear) are a bit too dark for my own holiday tastes, but are interesting and very personal arrangements. This book will make a great addition to your holiday sheet music collection and is available from isadar.com and amazon.com.

Isadar is an artist on both Enlightened Piano Radio & Whisperings Solo Piano Radio, the latter featuring some of today's biggest names in solo piano music, including Ludovico Einaudi, David Nevue, Brian Crain, Kevin Kern, Robin Spielberg, Michele McLaughlin, Philip Wesley and over 300 more...

Also available as sheet music in physical songbooks, digital downloads, as well as software for Yamaha Disklavier player-pianos.

For more information, visit his website at: http://www.isadar.com

Sounds like: Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Liz Story's "The Gift", George Winston's "December", early Windham Hill solo piano artists, and "A Winter's Solstice" compilations.

Transcribed by: David Shenton ( https://www.shentonmusic.com/ ) verbatim to the sound recording

Contents:
1. Good Christian Men (Good Christian Men, Rejoice / In Dulci Jubilo)
2. Teddy Bear's Picnic / March Of The Toys
3. O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)
4. Still (Still, Still, Still)
5. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, Veni, Emmanuel)
6. Song Of The Wise Men
7. O Come Little Children (Ihr Kinderlein Kommet)
8. Greensleeves 2012
9. Masters In This Hall
10. Merry Christmas... And A Happy New Year (We Wish You A Merry Christmas)

Here?sa bright and attractive collection of twenty traditional Christmas songs andcarols intended for the elementary pianist or keyboard player. The notation is kept as simple as possible and musical elements such as dynamics,articulations, phrasing and slurs are omitted completely. The piano part,which also includes chords, is printed in large type.It's an ideal item for schools, and especially piano teachers for some seasonal sight-reading for students. The chords are printed below the stave rather than above, to allow space for fingering suggestions. Fingerings are omitted during repeated passages or when the fingering is considered obvious.

Elementarypianists rarely have the opportunity of playing in an ensemble. The mainfeature of Colin Kirkpatrick?s Really Easy Christmas Collectionis that it?s fully compatible with the Optional Instrumental Pack, a setof instrumental parts transposed for a selection of popular instruments. It is available here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21394520 Whilethe Optional Instrumental Pack is primarily intended to play along withthe piano, the arrangements use flexible instrumentation and can be used entirely on their own without the keyboard part, thus giving you extra flexibility.

Thebook contains the following well-known Christmas carols and hymns: Angels fromthe Realms of Glory (Melody: Gloria); As with Gladness, Men of Old (Melody:Dix); Away in a Manger (Melody: Mueller); Deck the Halls (Melody: Nos Galan); Ding!Dong! Merrily on High (Melody: Bransle de l'Officiel); God Rest You Merry,Gentlemen (Melody: God Rest You Merry); Good Christians All Rejoice (Melody: InDulci Jubilo); Good King Wenceslas (Melody: Tempus Adest Floridum); Hark! TheHerald Angels Sing (Melody: Mendelssohn); I Saw Three Ships (Melody: I SawThree Ships); It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Melody: Carol); Joy to the World(Melody: Antioch); Oh Christmas Tree (Melody: Tannenbaum); Oh Come all yeFaithful (Melody: Adeste Fidelis); Once in Royal David's City (Melody: Irby); SilentNight (Melody: Stille Nacht); The First Nowell; The Holly and the Ivy (Melody:Holly and the Ivy); We Three Kings and WeWish You a Merry Christmas.

English.

Award-winning composer, arranger, pianist, and recording artist Mark Hayes has crafted an exquisite anthology of Christmas arrangements for solo voice, including traditional carols, art songs, masterworks, and spirituals. Reflecting the arranger's mastery of vocal accompaniment, the piano partners with the voice in true art song style. Available in medium high and medium low voicings, this collection also features accompaniment and full-performance recordings with Mark Hayes at the piano. Titles: Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella * Away in a Manger * Sing Joy! * Midnight Noel * Gesu Bambino * Silent Night * Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming * O Holy Night * The Coventry, Carol * Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child.

English.

Award-winning composer, arranger, pianist, and recording artist Mark Hayes has crafted an exquisite anthology of Christmas arrangements for solo voice, including traditional carols, art songs, masterworks, and spirituals. Reflecting the arranger's mastery of vocal accompaniment, the piano partners with the voice in true art song style. Available in medium high and medium low voicings, this collection also features accompaniment and full-performance recordings with Mark Hayes at the piano. Titles: Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella * Away in a Manger * Sing Joy! * Midnight Noel * Gesu Bambino * Silent Night * Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming * O Holy Night * The Coventry, Carol * Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child.