Piano and Violin For Christmas, Vol. II contains 14 arrangements for piano and violin. The violin parts are relatively easy, and written to complement the piano parts. The piano parts average around "intermediate." You will receive the scores, the piano parts and the violin parts. You can view a few score samples which are at the beginning of the eBook. When you purchase the book, there is no need to print out the one-page samples. The audio sample is an excerpt from "Carol of the Bells." It was digitally produced.

The songs included in this book are: Angels We Have Heard On High, Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella, Carol of the Bells, Deck the Halls, Ding! Dong! Merrily On High, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, I Saw Three Ships, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Joy to the World, O Little Town of Bethlehem, The Holly and the Ivy, We Three Kings and While Shepherds Watched.

Piano and Violin For Christmas, Vol. I contains 14 arrangements for piano and violin. The violin parts are written to complement the piano parts. You will receive the scores, the piano parts and the violin parts. You can view a few score samples which are at the beginning of the eBook. When you purchase the book, there is no need to print out the one-page samples.. The audio sample is an excerpt from "In Dulci Jubilo." It was digitally produced. The songs included in this book are: "Away In A Manger," "Greensleeves," "Here We Come A-Wassailing," "In Dulci Jubilo," "In the Bleak Midwinter," "Infant Holy," It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming," "O Holy Night," "Pat-A-Pan," "Silent Night" "Sussex Carol," "The First Noel" and "The Son Of Mary."

An excellent arrangement of famous Song "If I Were A Rich Man" for Violin and Piano (Jazz/Pop Version). The composition is easy to read, fun to play and sound professional when performed. Arranged by Fishel Pustilnik, very well known as Composer/Publisher. His books "Jazz and Pop Piano Paradise" (Volumes 1-5) have become a commercial success and a hit with music teachers and students in Canada. (Thousands books already sold in Canada). They are also starting to enter the US, Brazil, Norway, Russia, Holland, Israel, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Latvia and UK markets. ?This is a wonderful new publication. These pieces offer much appeal for the young pianist and excellent choice for a supplementary book for students from Grade 3 to 8.? Lore Ruschiensky, Editor, (from review in ?The Canadian Music Teacher?) ?Yesterday I spent at least two pleasure filled hours playing through your imaginatively inventive compositions. Congratulations! I trust students will decide to program your well crafted and entertaining works on recitals and examinations." Review from Dr. Jack Behrens, B.Sc. (Julliard), PH.D (Harvard), Director of Academic Studies, The Glenn Gould School "I liked this book the best so far. Great work! You have a gift for melody and your arrangements are very playable. Congratulations on the 3rd Volume?. Mark Carlstein, Hal Leonard, Keyboard Publications.

Edward Elgar composed his Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, popularly known as the Enigma Variations, between October 1898 and February 1899. It is an orchestral work comprising fourteen variations on an original theme.

Elgar dedicated the work "to my friends pictured within", each variation being a musical sketch of one of his circle of close acquaintances (see musical cryptogram). Those portrayed include Elgar's wife Alice, his friend and publisher Augustus J. Jaeger and Elgar himself.

In naming his theme "Enigma" Elgar posed a challenge which has generated much speculation but has never been conclusively answered. The Enigma is widely believed to involve a hidden melody.

The name of the variation IX (NIMROD) refers to Augustus J. Jaeger, who was employed as music editor by the London publisher Novello & Co. He was a close friend of Elgar's, giving him useful advice but also severe criticism, something Elgar greatly appreciated. Elgar later related how Jaeger had encouraged him as an artist and had stimulated him to continue composing despite setbacks. Nimrod is described in the Old Testament as "a mighty hunter before the Lord", Jäger being German for hunter.

In 1904 Elgar told Dora Penny ("Dorabella") that this variation is not really a portrait, but "the story of something that happened". Once, when Elgar had been very depressed and was about to give it all up and write no more music, Jaeger had visited him and encouraged him to continue composing. He referred to Ludwig van Beethoven, who had a lot of worries, but wrote more and more beautiful music. "And that is what you must do", Jaeger said, and he sang the theme of the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 Pathétique. Elgar disclosed to Dora that the opening bars of "Nimrod" were made to suggest that theme. "Can't you hear it at the beginning? Only a hint, not a quotation."

This variation has become popular in its own right and is sometimes used at British funerals, memorial services, and other solemn occasions. It is always played at the Cenotaph, Whitehall in London at the National Service of Remembrance. A version was also played during the Hong Kong handover ceremony in 1997 and at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The ?Nimrod? variation was the final orchestral composition (before the national anthem) played by the Greek National Orchestra in a televised June 2013 concert, before the 75-year-old Athenian ensemble was dissolved in the wake of severe government cutbacks.

An adaptation of the piece appears at the ending of the 2017 film Dunkirk as part of the score