Mel Bay

Arranger: Tommy Norris
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Mandolin
Level: Intermediate-Advanced

A wealth of beautiful and joyous music has been written for the Christmas season. Some of the most enchanting melodies can be found in this solo mandolin edition of the Early American holiday repertoire.

For this collection, Tommy Norris has selected eighteen lesser and better-known carols and songs from the folk, shape-note, sacred, Native American, African American spiritual, and European hymnody traditions, and arranged them for solo mandolin.

Each intermediate to moderately advanced arrangement is shown in standard notation and mandolin tablature. As a learning aid, a downloadable recording of the author's performance of each piece is available online.

We hope these arrangements bring the joy of the Christmas spirit to your holiday season.

Song List:

• A Virgin Unspotted
• Away in a Manger
• Exultation
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Great Creator
• Hush My Babe, Lie Still and Slumber
• It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
• Star in the East
• Lancaster
• Mary Had a Baby/What Yo' Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby
• O Little Town of Bethlehem
• Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow
• The Babe of Bethlehem
• The Shepherds' Star
• The Cherry Tree Carol
• The Huron Indian Carol
• Beautiful Star