This collection of ?Holiday Classics? contains 10 holiday songs arranged as instrumental duets (for CELLO solo with PIANO accompaniment). These fun-to-learn arrangements are a welcome addition to the repertoire for beginning cello students and suitable for recitals or just some family fun around the piano during the holiday season. Selections include classics associated with the winter holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year?s. Each song is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples.

All notes for the CELLO are playable in the first position making these arrangements an excellent choice for early-intermediate string players. For each song, there is a 3-staff score with CELLO and PIANO on each page plus a separate 1-staff score for the CELLO solo.

Song titles included in this collection:
Auld Lang Syne
Good King Wenceslas
Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's "Messiah"
Jingle Bells
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
O Christmas Tree
Over the River and Through the Woods
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Up On the Housetop
We Wish You a Merry Christmas

This collection contains 10 familiar hymns and praise choruses arranged as easy instrumental duets (for CELLO solo with PIANO accompaniment). From flowing and peaceful to bright and uplifting, these arrangements are a welcome addition to the repertoire for beginning string students. These familiar hymn and folk song arrangements are equally enjoyed whether used for recitals, worship services, or to make practicing more interesting.

All notes for the CELLO in each song 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 parts on each page (CELLO and PIANO) plus a separate 1-staff score for the CELLO.

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

Song titles included in this collection:
Be Still and Know
Close to Thee
Faith of Our Fathers
God Is So Good
I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
I?ve Found a Friend
Kum Ba Yah
Shall We Gather at the River
Shalom
Sweet By and By

18 Easy Gospel Hymns Vol.1 for Solo Cello and Piano is a beautiful collection of your best-loved Gospel Hymns and Spirituals. They are arranged simply in the most suitable range and key for the solo instrument. The preview only shows a few pages of the piano score, but this is followed by a separate solo instrumental part, adding up to 49 pages of quality music.

The standard is early intermediate. Players with a year or two?s experience will enjoy playing these Gospel hymns, with plenty of interest in both the solo and the piano parts. These hymns are ideal for use in concerts or worship, formal or informal. The hymns are in alphabetical order and are as follows

· Abide with Me,

· Amazing Grace,

· Blessed Assurance,

· Deep River,

· Down by the Riverside,

· Go Down Moses,

· Go Tell It on the Mountain,

· He?s Got the Whole World in HIs Hands,

· Higher Ground,

· Jesus on the Mainline,

· Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho,

· Just a Closer Walk with Thee,

· Just as I Am,

· Just Over in the Glory Land,

· Kumbaya My Lord,

· Love Lifted Me,

· Nobody Knows the Trouble I?ve Seen,

· Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.

If you like these Gospel Hymns, then there are another eighteen just like them in Volume 2. To find them copy and paste 18 Easy Gospel Hymns Vol.2 for Solo Cello and Piano in the Search Bar above. There are also duet versions of these Gospel hymns available on Sheet Music Plus, and more advanced duet arrangements of your Gospel favourites in the 10 Gospel Duets series.

To keep up with new titles, search for Dave McKeown Sheet Music Downloads on Facebook.

There are many more top quality arrangements and compositions by David McKeown for you to browse at http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/david-mckeown/6203