Festive Strings and More Festive Strings
festive strings Contents
- Jingle Bells in D Major
- Joy to the World
- Chanukah
- Away in a Manger
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- S’Vivon
- Jingle Bells in A Major
- Lo, How a Rose
- O Christmas Tree
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- O Chanukah
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- We Three Kings
- Silent Night in D Major
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Dreydl
- Silent Night in G Major
- Good King Wenceslas
- What Child is This (Greensleeves)
“Delightful arrangements – well written for the student musician, yet with a polished and professional sound. Thanks for making holiday music fun and fresh.”
Arrangements of well-known Christmas and Chanukah melodies.
Available for
String Ensemble
String Quartet or String Orchestra
Solo Instruments
Piano Accompaniment
- flexible scoring arrangements for multi-instruments, multi-level or multi-generational groups
- melody parts are elementary level
- harmony parts are intermediate level
- all pieces are composed in user-friendly keys
- shifting is kept to a minimum (mostly in first position)
Festive Strings for String Ensemble
More Festive Strings for String Ensemble
- Violin Ensemble, Viola Ensemble, Cello Ensemble
- for 2, 3, or 4 players – easy to ‘mix-and-match’ any combination of violin, viola, and cello other than string quartet or string orchestra
- Piano Accompaniment part is optional
Festive Strings for String Quartet or String Orchestra
More Festive Strings for String Quartet or String Orchestra
- each player gets a chance to play the melody
- Violin 3 part can replace Viola part
- String Bass parts are optional
- Piano Accompaniment part is optional
Festive Strings for Solo Instruments
More Festive Strings for Solo Instruments
- for Solo Violin, Solo Viola, Solo Cello
- the melody of each piece is reproduced in large print
- written for less advanced players
- can be used with the String Ensemble version, the String Orchestra or String Quartet version, or with Piano Accompaniment
Festive Strings Piano Accompaniment
More Festive Strings Piano Accompaniment
- use with any of the instrumentations written for String Ensemble, String Quartet or String Orchestra, or with Solo Instruments
“Festive Strings and More Festive Strings… are certain to meet every orchestra director’s needs… What I found most appealing is that the arrangements are new and interesting. Each one is a small gem that gives the traditional songs of the season a new twist. I found them to be refreshing, but not so different as to lose the feeling of the original song.”
“Beautiful collections worthy of extensive reading sessions and performances! Each part is interesting to play and to hear. The arrangements maintain the traditional harmonies we treasure, but with a freshness that makes them especially compelling. They deserve to be in all quartet players’ libraries.”