Mel Bay

. . . with Suggested Chordal Accompaniment

Arranger: William Bay
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Flute with Guitar accompaniment

Through the centuries, the Christmas season has inspired composers, poets, lyricists and hymn writers to apply their craft in devotion to this event.

This book presents 100 arrangements of favourite Christmas carols and advent hymns for flute solo with guitar accompaniment. Suggested chordal accompaniment is included for each solo so that any chordal instrument can accompany the flute. Where appropriate, capo chords are shown. The author has also indicated whether the guitarist should use fingerstyle or strum accompaniment.

The music in this book spans centuries and represents a wonderful assortment of solos which may be used as preludes or offertories throughout the various seasons in the church year.

Song List:

• A Babe is Born All of a Maiden
• A Boy is Born in Bethlehem
• A Virgin Unspotted
• A Star in the East (Hail the Blest Morn)
• Angels We Have Heard on High (Gloria)
• Angels, from the Realms of Glory
• As Lately We Watched
• As with Gladness Men of Old (Dix)
• Ave Maria (Schubert)
• Away in a Manger (Cradle Song/English)
• Away in a Manger (German Version)
• Away in a Manger (American Version)
• Baloo, Lammy
• Blessed be that Maid Marie
• Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light (Ermuntre dich)
• Brightest and Best (Morning Star)
• Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
• Cantico
• Carol of the Birds
• Carol of the Bells
• Christ Was Born on Christmas Day
• Christmas Chant
• Christmas Noel
• Coventry Carol
• Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (Hyfrydol)
• Comfort, Comfort Now My People (Freu Dich Sehr)
• Ding Dong, Merrily on High
• Down in Yon Forest
• Early Christmas Morn
• Exultation
• French Noel
• From East to West (Von Himmel kam der Engel Schar)
• Gesu Bambino
• Go Tell it on the Mountain
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
• Good Christian Men, Rejoice
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn)
• He is Born, the Divine Christ Child (Il est Ne)
• He Shall Feed His Flock (from The Messiah)
• Hills of the North, Rejoice
• How Great Our Joy (Herrick's Carol)
• Hush, My Babe, Lie Still and Slumber (Restoration)
• I Saw Three Ships
• In the Bleak Midwinter
• Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
• It Came upon the Midnight Clear (Carol)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
• Joy to the World (Antioch)
• Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming (Es ist ein Ros)
• Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
• Lo! He Comes, with Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
• Love Came Down at Christmas
• My Dancing Day
• Masters in this Hall
• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel)
• O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
• O Light of Light
• O Holy Night
• O Little Town of Bethlehem (St. Louis)
• O Little Town of Bethlehem (Forest Green)
• O Sanctissima (O Thou Joyful Day)
• O Savior of Our Fallen Race (Christie, Redemptor omnium)
• Of the Father's Love Begotten (Divinum Mysterium)
• On Christmas Day in the Morning
• On Christmas Night (Sussex Carol)
• On the Eve of Christmas
• Once in Royal David's City
• Our Savior Thee (TaLadh Ar Slanair)
• Personent Hodie
• Precioso Querube
• Rejoice and Be Merry
• Remember
• Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow
• Sans Day Carol
• Saw You Never, in the Twilight (Chartres)
• See Amid the Winter's Snow
• Silent Night (Stille Nacht)
• Sing We Now of Christmas (Noel Nouvelet)
• Sleepers Wake
• Star in the Night
• Still, Still, Still
• The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came
• The Babe of Bethlehem
• The Bagpiper's Carol
• The Cherry Tree Carol
• The Devonshire Carol
• The First Noel
• The Holly and the Ivy
• The Holy Child (El Santo Nino)
• The Moon Shines Bright
• The Nativity (Rorate)
• The Rocking Carol
• The Shepherds' Star
• The Snow Lay on the Ground (Venite Adoremus)
• The Star of Christmas Morning (The Golden Carol)
• We Three Kings
• Wexford Carol
• What Child is This?
• What Star is This, with Beams so Bright? (Puer Nobis)
• While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night