Mel Bay

Arranger: Grey Larsen
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Tin Whistle
Level: Beginning-Intermediate

Here are 30 easy-to-play Christmas favourites arranged for tin whistle (also known as pennywhistle) and Irish flute. Chords are included for guitar, keyboard, or other accompaniment instrument.

Also included with this book:

• Access to audio downloads for all 30 songs, with tin whistle, Irish flute and guitar
• Three duet arrangements

If you don't read music, you can still use this book! In addition to music notation, there is a specially-designed tablature for tin whistle and Irish flute.

What makes these tune arrangements easy?

• They are played in the lower two octaves of the whistle and flute's range, ascending no higher than B in the second octave.
• They are in easy tin whistle and Irish flute keys: D major, G major, E minor and B minor. No metal keys are needed on the Irish flute.
• They use only eight notes: D, E, F♯, G, A, B, C and C♯.
• They are also easy to play on soprano and tenor recorder, modern flute and piccolo.

The author recommends using a tin whistle in D or a standard Irish flute (with or without keys) with this book. You can also use soprano and tenor recorders, modern flute and piccolo. However, the tablature in this book uses only tin whistle and Irish flute fingerings.

Song List:

• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Away in a Manger
• The Boar's Head Carol
• Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
• Deck the Halls
• Ding Dong Merrily on High
• The First Noel
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
• Good King Wenceslas
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Here We Come A-Wassailing
• The Holly and the Ivy
• I Saw Three Ships
• In the Bleak Midwinter
• Jingle Bells
• Jolly Old St. Nicholas
• Joy to the World
• Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
• O Christmas Tree
• O Come, All Ye Faithful
• O Come, Little Children
• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
• Silent Night
• Sing We Now of Christmas
• The Snow Lay on the Ground
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Up on the Housetop
• We Three Kings
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• Ding Dong Merrily on High, Duet
• Silent Night, Duet
• We Three Kings, Duet