Oxford University Press

A stockingful of 32 easy pieces for cello

Authors: Kathy Blackwell, David Blackwell
Format: Book with CD
Instrumentation: Cello
Level: Very Easy

• 32 well-known Christmas carols and pieces with words to sing along
• solos and duets using finger patterns 0-1-34 and 0-12-4
• easy chord symbols for guitar or keyboard accompaniment; these chords are not compatible with the audio tracks
• a companion website with performances to listen or play along to; the varied accompaniments use piano, guitar, drums, and bass
• piano accompaniments available in a separate volume

Dip into this stockingful of easy Christmas music for cello! Unwrap a traditional carol, dance to the 'Skaters' Waltz' and a 'Christmas Calypso', and pull a cracker full of solos and duets. With words to sing along, chords for guitar or keyboard, and fantastic play-along audio tracks, Cello Time Christmas is the perfect gift for any young cellist.

Contents:

• Andrew mine, Jasper mine
• Auld Lang Syne
• Away in a manger
• Bethl'em lay a-sleeping
• Child in a manger
• Children, go!
• Christmas Calypso
• Dance of the Reed Pipes
• Deck the hall
• Ding dong! merrily on high
• God rest you merry, gentlemen
• Good King Wenceslas
• Go tell it on the mountain
• Hark! the herald-angels sing
• Hogmanay Reel
• Infant holy, infant lowly
• I saw three ships
• Jingle, bells
• Mary had a baby
• O Christmas tree
• O come, all ye faithful
• O little town of Bethlehem
• Once in Royal David's city
• Shepherds watched
• Silent night
• Skaters' Waltz
• The first Nowell
• The holly and the ivy
• We three kings
• We wish you a merry Christmas
• While shepherds watched their flocks
• Zither Carol