This download includes the score, Harp I and Harp II. My harp duets are consistent in their configuration. Harp I part is the most difficult, and can be played on lever or pedal harp. Harp II part is generally easier, and lap harp friendly. So this duet is suitable for student/teacher duet practice, and for almost any combination of two harp players. Or even an ensemble with several playing each part. The audio sample was digitally produced.

This harp duet arrangement is from my book "Christmas, Book Two" (Harp Duet Collection), which contains 10 harp duet arrangements. The Sheet Music Plus Item No. for the book is S0.705771.

This collection includes nine familiar Christmas favorites: Jingle Bells, We Three Kings, O Christmas Tree, Russian Dance (from "The Nutcracker"), Deck the Halls, Joy to the World, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, and Carol of the Bells. These student-friendly arrangements feature large print and have fingerings clearly marked.

This collection is appropriate for students in level 1 and 2 of most method books. Some of the concepts encountered include: simple position shifts, finger crossings, intervals up to a fifth, root position chords, and eighth notes. There is also one piece each in F major, G major, and A minor. See samples of each piece and hear each piece performed in its entirety in the sample video.

Need an even easier Christmas collection? Take a look at my "First Christmas Favorites" for beginner piano!

A PDF collection of my 2020 Christmas album 'A Peaceful Piano Christmas'. Song listing:

1 The Holly and the Ivy
2 The First Noel
3 Good King Wenceslas
4 In the Bleak Midwinter
5 Ding Dong Merrily on High
6 Deck the Halls
7 Hark the Herald Angels Sing
8 The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came
9 Away in a Manger
10 Silent Night.

Sounds like: Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, Liz Story's "The Gift", George Winston's "December", early Windham Hill solo piano artists, and "A Winter's Solstice" compilations.


Transcribed by: David Shenton ( https://www.shentonmusic.com/ ) verbatim to the sound recording

Contents:
1. Bring A Torch (Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella)
2. Children Go Where I Send Thee / The Holly & The Ivy
3. Star Of Wonder (We Three Kings of Orient Are)
4. Silent (Silent Night, Holy Night)
5. Midnight (It Came Upon the Midnight Clear)
6. What Child Is This?
7. Greensleeves (homage to Liz Story)
8. Three Ships (I Saw Three Ships, Come Sailing In)
9. The Coventry Carol (Lully, Lulla, Lullay)
10. Sing We Now Of Christmas (No�l Nouvelet)
11. Carol Of The Bells

Album & Songbook review by: Kathy Parsons (MainlyPiano.com):

I have discovered a real wealth of great solo piano Christmas CDs this year! Isadar?s In Search For the Meaning of Christmas definitely falls into this category! Thoughtful, introspective, and a bit moody, Isadar?s arrangements are true to the carols (with some small melody changes in ?Bring a Torch? and ?Carol of the Bells? that bother me just a little) and still seem very personal. ?Bring a Torch?, ?The Holly and the Ivy?, and ?I Saw Three Ships? are given a lighthearted, joyful treatment. ?Star of Wonder (We Three Kings)?, ?What Child Is This??, ?The Coventry Carol?, and ?Sing We Now of Christmas? are all minor, somber, reverent pieces, and all four are given loving arrangements that keep the dark, mysterious nature of the songs and reflect Isadar?s own sensibilities. ?Carol of the Bells? and Isadar's take on Liz Story?s arrangement of ?Greensleeves? are energetic without losing all abandon. ?Silent Night? and ?It Came Upon a Midnight Clear? present us with a very cold, deep solitude - both feel like late night with moonlight reflecting off the snow. Both are moody, but very beautifully so. George Winston?s ?December? is one of my all-time favorite holiday albums, and I feel In Search For the Meaning of Christmas holds up exceptionally well next to it. This is an excellent collection of Christmas music, and I highly recommend it!

In Search For the Meaning of Christmas is the companion songbook to Isadar?s 1999 solo piano release by the same name. Meticulously transcribed note-for-note by David Shenton of New York Music Publishing, the music is faithful to the recording in every way (except for the pianist - YOU!). The scores are clear, concise, and easy to read, and also include chord indications for improvisation or the use of instruments other than or in addition to the piano. Isadar?s arrangements cover a whole range of emotions, from very dark and somber to joyful and buoyant. All of the pieces from the CD are here, including Isadar?s homage to Liz Story and her beautiful version of ?Greensleeves.? My personal favorites of the eleven songs in this book are the bright and cheerful ?Bring A Torch,? ?What Child Is This??, ?Greensleeves,? the darkly gorgeous ?The Coventry Carol,? and ?Sing We Now of Christmas.? Other titles that I really like are ?Children Go Where I Send Thee/The Holly and the Ivy,? ?Star of Wonder (We Three Kings)," ?Carol of the Bells,? and the effervescent ?Three Ships.? ?Silent? (Silent Night) and ?Midnight? (It Came Upon a Midnight Clear) are a bit too dark for my own holiday tastes, but are interesting and very personal arrangements. This book will make a great addition to your holiday sheet music collection and is available from isadar.com and amazon.com.

Isadar is an artist on both Enlightened Piano Radio & Whisperings Solo Piano Radio, the latter featuring some of today's biggest names in solo piano music, including Ludovico Einaudi, David Nevue, Brian Crain, Kevin Kern, Robin Spielberg, Michele McLaughlin, Philip Wesley and over 300 more...

Also available as sheet music in physical songbooks, digital downloads, as well as software for Yamaha Disklavier player-pianos.

For more information, visit his website at: http://www.isadar.com

This is a book of 13 beautiful, playable Christmas arrangements for two recorders. It is suitable for soprano, alto, tenor, in any combination.

The songs are: Angels from the Realms of Glory, Away In a Manger, Carol of the Bells, Deck the Halls, Ding Dong! Merrily On High, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, In the Bleak Midwinter, Jesu, Joy of Man?s Desiring, O Holy Night, Sussex Carol, The First Noel and We Three Kings.

Please check out the music samples for play-ability for your ensemble. The samples don't always look normal. The music looks perfect in your pdf.

The audio sample is from Carol of the Bells. It sounds more like alto recorder, it is to give you an idea of what the arrangement is like.

My website: www.blevinsmusic.com

My arrangement of Away in a Manger is pure and traditional in feel. The second verse is for three high voices.

Since there are so many arrangements out there of the more common Kirkpatrick melody, I decided to use the John Hopkin's version which I find equals, if not surpasses, the more known tune.

Visit my choir's YouTube channel for samples of my works:https://www.youtube.com/user/StairwellCarollers
Contact: info@stairwellcarollers.com

Song List: Once Again My Heart Rejoices Go Tell It On the Mountain Prepare The Royal Highway Of The Fathers Love Begotten Once In Royal Davids City Hark the Herald Angels Sing People Look East Hark the Glad Sound Twas in the Moon of Wintertime Silent Night Holy Night Let Our Gladness Have No End