These Twenty-One Christmas Carols are a fun-to-play collection of well-known Christmas and holiday songs arranged in a flexible style, with a traditional feel and contemporary flavor. Each song is fairly short, but can be repeated as many times through the verses as desired. An optional introduction is notated at the end of every song.

This book (223117) is suitable for two violins, and can also pair with other C instruments such asflute, oboe, or mallet percussion. It is compatible with the other string duet books in thisseries:

Twenty-One Christmas Carols for Flexible String Duet, Viola book (223118)
Twenty-One Christmas Carols for Flexible String Duet, Cello book (223119)

The following carols are included in the collection:

1. Angels We Have Heard on High
2. Away in a Manger
3. Carol of the Bells
4. Deck the Halls
5. The First Noel
6. God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
7. Good King Wenceslas
8. Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah
9. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
10. Jingle Bells
11. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
12. Joy to the World
13. O Come All Ye Faithful
14. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
15. O Holy Night
16. O Little Town of Bethlehem
17. O Tannenbaum
18. Silent Night
19. Wassail Song
20. We Three Kings
21. We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

This collection of ?Easy String Duets? contains 10 familiar Christmas carols arranged for 2 VIOLINS. These creative and fun-to-learn arrangements are a welcome addition to the repertoire for beginning string students and suitable for holiday concerts and worship services.

All notes for both VIOLIN parts are playable in the first position making these arrangements an excellent choice for early-intermediate string players. For each song, there is a combined score (grand staff) with both VIOLIN parts on each page plus separate 1-staff scores for each VIOLIN.

Each song is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples.

Song titles included in this collection:
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Angels We Have Heard on High
Deck the Halls
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
He Is Born the Divine Christ Child
Joy to the World
I Saw Three Ships
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
Once in Royal David?s City

Violin Duets for Christmas, Vol. I contains 12 beautiful arrangements for two violins. You will receive the scores, the Violin 1 parts and the Violin 2 parts. You can view some score samples.

The audio sample is an excerpt from "Carol of the Bells." It was digitally produced.

The songs included in this book are: Angels From the Realms of Glory, Away in a Manger, Carol of the Bells, Ding! Dong! Merrily On High, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, In Dulci Jubilo, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, O Holy Night, Pachelbel's Canon, Pat-a-Pan, The First Noel and While Shepherds Watched.