SKU: A0.512932

Violin Solo with Piano Accompaniment. The beautiful melodies of each carol are shared by both parts. The conclusion (coda) combines both melodies.

Can also be played by Flute, Oboe and Pitched Percussion (ex: Marimba).

Package includes parts for Clarinet/Soprano Sax/Trumpet/Flugelhorn and Alto Sax.

The audio sample (“Listen�) represents a Violin solo.

The YouTube sample (“Watch�) represents a Soprano Sax solo.

This arrangement is also available for many other ensembles and soloists.

Look for more arrangements by Roger Wallace.

SKU: A0.1494787

Violin Solo with Piano Accompaniment. 

This recording is a full demonstration of the printed arrangement by Roger Wallace that is available in Sheet Music Plus and Sheet Music Direct.

The beautiful melodies of each carol are shared by both parts. The conclusion (coda) combines both melodies.

Can also be played by Flute, Recorder, Oboe and Pitched Percussion (ex: Marimba). 
Package includes parts for Clarinet/Soprano Sax/Trumpet/Flugelhorn and Alto Sax.

SKU: A0.1319728

A traditional 16th century English Carol from the 16th century. This beautiful, haunting melody is used during Christmas services. 

Early Intermediate flute part.
Intermediate piano accompaniment.
Excellent for Preludes and Offertories
Great for teaching picardy thirds.

SKU: A0.697720

The Wexford Carol is a traditional religious Irish Christmas carol. The lyrics (not included here) begin Good people all this Christmas time. This carol has been gaining in popularity recently recorded by Yo Yo Ma and Alison Krauss (2008), English boy choir Libera (2013) and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir (2016).
This arrangement is an Early Intermediate Violin solo in the key of G with a piano accompaniment. A solo sheet for the violin with suggested bowing is also included.

SKU: A0.1237023

Arranged for Violin and Piano, this hauntingly beautiful English melody is a wonderful selection for Advent and Christmas worship services, or for concert and recital settings. Intermediate difficulty level. (Full score and separate Violin part included.).

SKU: A0.548506

The First Noel arranged for Violin & Piano with new harmony for the final verse.

Origins

The First Noel is an English Christmas carol. Even more, it was probably written in the late Cornish Renaissance period. While other versions spell the title as Nowell, this is just a colloquial variation. Furthermore, Noel is an older word meaning Christmas. Therefore the First Noel translates as the First Christmas. First of all, Gilbert and Sandy published the earliest version. As a result, this version appears in the Carols Ancient and Modern songbook of 1823. William Sandy edited and arranged the book. Similarly, his partner Davies Gilbert edited and added the familiar extra verses. The First Noel: Violin Version comes with new harmony in final verse for more energy and drive.

Stainer

Organist and composer Sir John Stainer published the most noteworthy customary arrangement in the 1870’s.  Stainer is above all famous for his songbook entitled: Christmas Carols New and Old (1871). This volume served as an important catalyst for reviving the English Christmas carol.  Other famous Stainer arrangements from this book are such titles as What Child Is This, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslas, and I Saw Three Ships.

Diatonic Function

The melodic structure in the First Noel is uncommon among English folk tunes. It simply repeats one phrase twice then follows a variation refrain. All three phrases of the song end on the mediant scale degree. This is unusual because the diatonic function of the mediant is non-final compared to the more usual tonic or even dominant degrees. Consequently, this gives the song as kind of open-ended feeling – like maybe it never really ends.

Political Context

The Catholic clergy sang carols outside of the church in Latin. After the Protestant Reformation, the reformers thought it would be better for everyone to sing carols. They decided to bring music back to the common folk. So, they translated the lyrics from Latin into common language. Moreover, the Protestants wanted more control over the music in church than what the Vatican allowed. Protestant composers such as William Byrd composed complex polyphonic Christmas music that they called carols. Nonetheless, some famous folk carols were composed in this era. Eminent composers in the nineteenth century began to revise and adapt them. Consequently, they revived the English carol.

SKU: A0.697631

The Holly and the Ivy is a traditional English Christmas carol that began to appear in publications in the middle of the 19th century. English holly (ilex) and ivy have been common in English Advent and Christmas church decorations since at least the 15th and 16th centuries and were mentioned regularly in churchwardens’ accounts.
This arrangement is for Early Intermediate Violin or Mandolin with a piano accompaniment. A separate sheet is included for the soloist. Other carols published by McIntire here on sheetmusicplus for violin include: Silent Night, O Holy Night, There's a Star in the East and Go Tell It on the Mountain.

SKU: A0.751638

This popular Christmas carol has been arranged with a delicate and gently flowing piano accompaniment and a cheerful lilting sound to the violin. The violin plays the melody in the first and third verse, but plays a lovely counter melody in the second as the piano takes the melody. This would be a beautiful addition to any Christmas service, event or recital. This piece is also available in the compilation Five Christmas Carols for Solo Violin with Piano Accompaniment Item ID# S0.907271 at Sheet Music Plus.
A piano accompaniment track is available separately at Sheet Music Plus - Item Id S0.883561
Thank you to mfacchinetti at pixabay for the cover image.

SKU: A0.1040067

This performance level arrangement explores, within 4 verses, the well-known English and French rejoicing carols based on the French hymn tune, Gloria. You will receive the Score plus separate parts. The Piano part may be played on Organ or Harp.