Product Description
Your
Favorite Christmas Hymns and Carols for Strings, Book 1
Arranged
for strings by Colin Kirkpatrick
Heres
a brand new collection of best-loved Christmas hymns and carols arranged for strings,
to brighten up your next Christmas event. They are presented in a set of two
books and include full four-part instrumental scores plus parts for first violin,
second violin, viola, cello and optional double bass. Both cello and bass parts
appear on a single staff. The arrangements can be used with string quartet, string
quintet or string ensemble. Theres also an optional but useful simplified
keyboard part intended for less experienced keyboard players. The left hand
plays only the bass part most of the time, with the right hand part kept as
simple as possible. It could be used as the basis of an accompaniment which
means that you can use the arrangements as solos, duets or trios.
The
arrangements are intended either as stand-alone pieces that could be used as
interludes in a concert or service, or they could be used to accompany solo,
choral or congregational singing. The arrangements been written in string-friendly
keys as often as possible. While the hymns mostly use the traditional
harmonies, the carols have been treated more freely.
Book 1 includes the
following 19 titles: Angels from the Realms of Glory (Melody: Gloria); Away
in a Manger (Melody: Mueller); Unto Us a Child Is Born (Melody: Puer
Nobis); Christians Awake! (Melody: Yorkshire); Deck the Halls with
Boughs of Holly (Melody: Nos Galan); Go Tell it on the Mountain; Good
Christian Men, Rejoice (Melody: In Dulci Jubilo); Good King Wenceslas
(Melody: Tempus Adest Floridum); I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In; It
Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Melody: Carol); Little Jesus, Sweetly
Sleep (Melody: Rocking); O Christmas Tree (Melody: Tannenbaum); O
Come all ye Faithful (Melody: Adeste Fidelis); O Little Town of
Bethlehem (Melody: Saint Louis); O Holy Night (Melody: Cantique
Noël); Silent Night (Melody: Stille Nacht); The Holly and the Ivy;
We Wish You a Merry Christmas and What Child is This? (Melody:
Greensleeves)
The
audio samples include
Go Tell it on the Mountain; O Christmas Tree; O Holy Night and
Silent
Night. Please note that the arrangements are usually
not usually compatible
with the brass collection of the same name.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.