Adding to his two successful editions 'Little Stories in Jazz' (ED 7186) and 'Piano Studies in Pop' (ED 7304), Mike Schoenmehl wrote the collection 'Jazz for Two' for piano duet. Originally published in two volumes, the work was reedited in one volume in our new edition. Schoenmehl's commitment in the field of education to make rock, pop and jazz music accessible to pupils in a fun way shows here too: rhythm, harmony, melody, form and phrasing of popular music shall be imparted on the pupils by means of these fifteen entertaining jazz and pop pieces. Some of the pieces are even accompanied by exemplary exercises and educational remarks. Illustrated with funny drawings by Marcus Reinheimer.

Theselively arrangements are intended for the elementary pianists or keyboardplayers. While some duets are more challenging than others, the notation hasusually been kept as simple as possible and musical elements such as dynamics,articulations, phrasing and slurs have been omitted completely. To make thingseasier for the players, the piano parts are printed in large type with Primoand Secondo parts on separate pages. In the Secondo part, chordsare printed underneath the staff (rather than above) to create space for thefingering suggestions.

Elementarypianists rarely have the valuable opportunity of playing in an ensemble. Themain feature of the Really Easy Christmas Collection for piano duet isthat it?s fully compatible with the Optional Instrumental Pack, a set ofinstrumental parts for all 20 songs in this collection. The Instrumental Packcontains (a) full scores of each piece plus a set of parts in varioustranspositions. It is available here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21394520 

Theduets include 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.

Theaudio examples include several other instruments using parts from the OptionalInstrumental Pack.