Mel Bay's Caroling Book: Melody Lyrics & Chords: Mixed Songbook

A fun 'sing-along ' melody-line/big-note caroling book with lyrics. Perfect for the Christmas season. Easy to read and fun to use.

Duets For Two Acoustic Guitars-The Christmas season has always been special to me. It is a season that has crystallized the hopes aspirations and faith of millions of people through the centuries. The amount of music written for Christmas is monumental.This book contains 14 scores from my Christmas Guitar Portraits recording. I selected various genres dear to me.First there are selections from the early American sacred song tradition. The Babe of Bethlehem Cherry Tree Carol A Star in the East The Shepherd's Star A Virgin Unspotted and I Wonder As I Wander all are from this rich heritage.I also picked a number of carols from theOld English genre. Away In The Manger Green Grow'th the Holly and What Child is This are included.Then there are the Christmas favourites. In the Bleak Mid-winter and a medley ofBaloo Lammy; The First Noel and Silent Night make any Christmas complete. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence is one of my favourite Advent hymns. Gaudete Christus est natus is arousing carol dating back many centuries.Finally I included two originals. Lullay My Liking is an ancient carol text. Many composers over the centuries have written melodies to these lyrics most notably GustavHolst. I could not resist the temptation so the melody here is original. Finally Christmas Prayer is a new composition. I have always wanted to compose and arrange music designed to bring the Plectrum or Flatpick Guitarto the concert stage. These arrangements were written with that in mind.

With Online Audio-This volume contains some of the most popular traditional carols arranged for Flute and Guitar. Most of these duet arrangements allow as much dialogue and interplay between the two instruments as possible whilemaintaining each carol's character and spirit. While the Flute often carries the melody the Guitar has frequent solo passages of its own to help break the 'melody with chords' monotony found in many arrangements of this kind.Modulations imitative counterpoint and quotations from works by well-known composers will hopefully make these little pieces enjoyable for performers as well as listeners. For intermediate level Flutists and Guitarists.Standard notation only. Includes access to online audio and downloadable PDF of the Flute part.