This collection of ?Easy String Duets? contains 10 familiar Christmas carols arranged for VIOLIN and CELLO. 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 the VIOLIN and CELLO 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 the VIOLIN and CELLO parts on each page plus separate 1-staff scores for the VIOLIN and CELLO.

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
Deck the Halls
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
He Is Born the Divine Christ Child
I Saw Three Ships

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
Joy to the World
O Sing a Song of Bethlehem
Once in Royal David?s City

This accessible and appropriate Christmas collection of duets for Violin and Cello with Piano accompaniment. All songs are either arranged or composed by Stephen DeCesare. The accompaniment Contents are: "Over The River And Through The Woods", "Wexford Carol", "Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle", "Silent Night", "In The Bleak Midwinter with Silent Night" and "What Child Is This".

This collection will give a taste of carols that are performed throughout the world. Contents: "Angels We Have Heard On High" (French), "Poor Little Jesus" (African-American Spiritual), "O Christmas Tree" (German), "Wexford Carol" (Irish), "Gesu Bambino with Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle" (Italian), "The First Noel" (British). Scored as a duet for Violin and Cello with Piano accompaniment.

These arrangements of favorite Christmas carols are sure to brighten up your next Christmas event. They include full four-part instrumental scores plus parts for 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola and cello/double bass. Most of the carols can be played in first position, but for a brighter sound, ask your more experienced violinists to play an octave higher. The double bass is optional because it uses the cello part. The arrangements can be used with string quartet, string quintet or string ensemble. There?s also an optional but useful simplified keyboard part intended for less experienced keyboard players. It could be used as the basis of an accompaniment which means that you can use the arrangements as solos, duets or trios.


Please note that because the arrangements are in string-friendly keys, they?re not compatible with the brass and wind collections of the same name. The scores and all the parts are contained in a single 79-page PDF file. This collection includes the following favorite carols: Angels We Have Heard On High (Gloria); Lo, How a Rose E?er Blooming (Es ist ein Ros entsprungen); O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel); The First Noel; Ding Dong! Merrily on High (Bransle de l?Officiel); O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fidelis); Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn); Go Tell It on the Mountain; O Little Town of Bethlehem (St. Louis); O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël); Silent Night (Stille Nacht); Away in a Manger (Mueller); Joy to the World (Antioch); O Christmas Tree (Tannenbaum); We Three Kings (Kings of Orient); I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Waltham); What Child is This? (Greensleeves); God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; Good King Wenceslas (Tempus Adest Floridum) and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

This accessible and appropriate Christmas collection of duets for a Violin and Cello with Piano accompaniment. All songs have been arranged by Stephen DeCesare. The accompaniment Contents are: "O Holy Night", "Gesu Bambino", "In The Bleak Midwinter", "The Birthday of a King", "Away In A Manger", and "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel with O Come, Divine Messiah".