Christmas Medleys For Students, Book 1 7 Graded Selections For Late Elementary Pianists Book
Christmas Medleys for Students includes favorite Christmas carols that have been skillfully combined into medleys that are perfect for recitals or other performances. Book 1 is arranged at the late-elementary level with the pieces placed in approximate order of difficulty. Complex rhythms have been avoided and only simple eighth-note patterns are used. Key signatures are limited to one sharp or flat. Technical challenges include playing harmonic intervals that stretch up to a seventh, playing root position triads, and using the damper pedal in basic ways. Titles: Angels We Have Heard on High/Ding, Dong, Merrily on High * I Wonder as I Wander/Silent Night * Jingle Bells/Up on the Housetop * O Come, Little Children/O Come, All Ye Faithful * The Twelve Days of Christmas/Jolly Old Saint Nicholas * We Three Kings of Orient Are/Away in a Manger * We Wish You a Merry Christmas/Auld Lang Syne.