A tender and emotional lullaby for the baby Jesus from a loving mother who must have had some understanding of both the sorrow and the glory that were to come for her little one. This arrangement takes the original melody (major key) and adapts it to a combination of minor and major keys to capture the different layers of emotions. One piano, four hands. Purchase price is for two copies so you and your duet partner can each have one. 4 pages for each part, or 10 pages for the combined score. The PDF download contains both layouts so you can play from the one you prefer. Performance time: approximately 4:00.

Collection of 50 Christmas Carols for solo Soprano Recorder, comfortable range and key, easy for beginners.
Contents: A la nanita nana - Adeste Fideles - Angels from the Realms of Glory - As Lately We Watched, As with Gladness Men of Old - Auld Lang Syne - Away in a Manger - Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabelle - Carol of the bells - Children, Go Where I Send Thee - O Christmas Tree - Coventry Carol - The Deck the Halls - Ding Dong Merrily on High - First Noel - The Friendly Beasts - The Gloucestershire Wassail - Go Tell it on the Mountain - God Rest Ye Merry,Gentlemen - Good King Wenceslas - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Holly and the Ivy - The Huron Carol - I saw three ships - In dulci Jubilo - In Notte Placida - In the Bleak Midwinter - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - Jingle Bells - Joy to The World - Lullaby - O Holy Night - O Little Town of Bethlehem - O Sanctissima - Oh, come, little children - Once in Royal David's City - Over the river and through the woods - Patapan - Quanno Nascette Ninno - Ring Out, Wild Bells - Rise Up Shepherd And Follow - Sans Day Carol - Silent Night - Toyland - The Twelve Days of Christmas - Up on the Housetop - We Three Kings of Orient Are - We Wish you a Merry Christmas - What Child Is This? - Winter's Snow.

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.