Mel Bay's Complete Traditional Holiday Season Fake Book (Mel Bay's Complete Series) [Spiral-bound]

Frank Levin (Author)

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 142 pages
• Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.; 1 edition (October 1, 1997)
• ISBN-10: 0786632550
• ISBN-13: 978-0786632558
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,614,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars {Just the right jingle}, October 8, 2002

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Bernard (New york city NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mel Bay's Complete Traditional Holiday Season Fake Book (Mel Bay's Complete Series) (Spiral-bound)

I often play for multi-ethnic groups,this book enables me to taylor- make each performance. It contains music not only from almost every European country, but some unusual gems from South America, China, the Philippines and Japan.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and Rare Selections, December 17, 2000

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Evan Rosen "Author, The Culture of Collaboration" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mel Bay's Complete Traditional Holiday Season Fake Book (Mel Bay's Complete Series) (Spiral-bound)

This is a great book for preparing a culturally diverse program in that Levin carefully selected the music to represent many countries and cultures. Among the interesting rarities are a Huron Indian Christmas song from Canada; Christmas songs from China, the Filipines, Mexico and South America; and unusual selections from such countries as Australia, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Greece, Sweeden, Russia, Holland and Armenia. Virtually every Christian culture is represented. Many of the Jewish and Hebrew titles I've seen nowhere else!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is definately one of my favorite piano books now, December 24, 1999

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G. Hamm (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mel Bay's Complete Traditional Holiday Season Fake Book (Mel Bay's Complete Series) (Spiral-bound)

It has a lot of classical titles that I've been meaning to get, and the arrangements are as good or better than what I've played over the years. There's a lot of attention paid to detail. And most of the songs still sound rich or complex. It has a LOT of titles. I'd recommend it.