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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book for beginners, December 14, 2011
This review is from: Mel Bay Christmas Solos for Beginning Violin (VOLUME 1) (Paperback)
I got this book a few months after I started playing violin and was able to play all the songs immediately. The book includes a piano score and a separate pull-out booklet with just the violin part. The piano and violin played together make a rich, beautiful sound. Songs include:
Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger
Deck the Halls
Ding,dong Merrily on High
The First Nowell
Good King Wenceslas
Here We Come A-Wassaling
The Holly and the Ivy
Jingle Bells
Joy to the World
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Once in Royal David's City
The Rocking Carol
Silent Night
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
I particularly like Craig Duncan's arrangement of "Away in a Manger" because it includes both the old and new versions of the tune in the same piece. If you have a beginning violinist and an intermediate pianist in your family, you will have beautiful Christmas music almost immediately with this great book. (They also have corresponding books for viola and cello/bass, but I haven't seen those.)
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