2nd edition - new and improved.

Volume 2 of our Christmas collection (the \"Red Book\") contains ten classic Christmas carols that both you and your audience are sure to love.

Be sure to also check out Volumes 1 and 3, each with 10 different Christmas carols! [You might also like \"American Patriotic Music for All, Volume 1\" with four classic patriotic tunes and three complete Sousa marches.]

These holiday favorites can be played with anywhere from 1 to 7 parts, suitable for a single solo, a chamber group, a pickup group for church choir accompaniment, or a full band or orchestra (school, community, or professional). This is one of the most versatile collections you\'ll ever use! The audio clip has an excerpt of one carol performed as a full orchestra, a string quartet, and a woodwind duet.

The carols included in Volume 2 are:
I Saw Three Ships
Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger (Cradle Song)
Deck the Halls
Good Christian Men Rejoice (In Dulci Jubilo)
Lo, How a Rose E\'er Blooming
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Forest Green)
The First Noel
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
O Holy Night

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.

ISBN 9781682965580. 9 x 12 inches.

A fun collection of secular and sacred holiday tunes for students in good keys with good fingerings. Contents: Coventry Carol; Deck the Hall; Good King Wenceslas; The Holly and the Ivy; Jingle Bells; Jolly Old St. Nicholas; Joy to the World; Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming; Silent Night; Up on the Housetop.