SKU: AX.00-PC-0014608_VN1

UPC: 038081376196.

Stretch your performance music budget further with a collection of pieces for the price of one! The Alfred and Belwin Signature Performance Series combine several best-selling pieces by our popular composers and arrangers into one set of score and parts. Made for young bands and orchestras, each set contains full-length pieces that can be used together in one concert or separately, with themes such as classic popular Christmas, movies, international, pop, and Classics appropriate for Contest. Also available for choir and handbell choir. Enjoy quality music at a great value price! Titles: Carols for Strings * In a Christmas Mood * DECKorations.
Concert/Contest.

SKU: AX.00-PC-0014608_PC1

UPC: 038081376196.

Stretch your performance music budget further with a collection of pieces for the price of one! The Alfred and Belwin Signature Performance Series combine several best-selling pieces by our popular composers and arrangers into one set of score and parts. Made for young bands and orchestras, each set contains full-length pieces that can be used together in one concert or separately, with themes such as classic popular Christmas, movies, international, pop, and Classics appropriate for Contest. Also available for choir and handbell choir. Enjoy quality music at a great value price! Titles: Carols for Strings * In a Christmas Mood * DECKorations.
Concert/Contest.

SKU: A0.821597

Handbell arrangement of two familiar carols for 3 or 4 octaves (C4 - C8 - upper bells are optional). Suitable for church services or public presentations. Intermediate level - key of F. Includes unlimited license to copy: Buy one and make as many copies as needed for your group.

SKU: A0.1316387

This arrangement of O Little Town of Bethlehem is excerpt from Christmas Suite 1225 (Part 1) - a new album by The Candlelight Guitarist (aka Bradley Powell). It's fingerstyle classical guitar, a fresh chordal interpretation, moving bass, internal lines, and other distinctive stylistic features. O Little Town of Bethlehem performance can be seen in the Candlelight Guitarist YouTube video of Christmas Suite 1225 (Part 1) beginning at 1:59. (The entire Christmas Suite 1225 is also available for purchase as one sheet music file, including 14 traditional carols and one original.)

ABOUT: Brad Powell (aka The Candlelight Guitarist) began guitar at age ten, inspired by The Beatles. At 15, he became a protégé of jazz guitarist Joe Pass, and later studied classical guitar under Vincent Macaluso and at California State University, Northridge under Ronald Purcell, with a master class under Andrés Segovia. Brad was featured performing Gerald Wilson's Sonata for Guitar and Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, with the composer conducting. Brad was mentored in composition by David Rose (composer for Little House on the Prairie). Brad has composed music for TV, including Hill Street Blues and The 'A' Team, working with Mike Post. Brad has ten albums as The Candlelight Guitarist. When not making music, Brad is often out hiking with his four dogs. Brad has also played as the solo guitarist for Disney's Princess Breakfast Adventure at Disney's Grand Californian Resort by Disneyland, providing music for Disney Princesses (Belle, Tiana, Jasmine, Rapunzel, Mulan, Aurora, Ariel, Pocahontas, and Cinderella).

COMMENTS FROM LONG-ESTABLISHED REVIEWERS (for this and other Candlelight Guitarist recordings)...
Dr. Beth - Amazon.com #1 Hall of Fame reviewer
Brad has a knack for putting together gentle, soothing guitar medleys which provide the perfect background or relaxation soundtrack.

Bill Binkelman - Music Reviewer for Zone Music Reporter and New Age Retailer
The Candleight Guitarist is your tour guide to a land of easy-going, warm, and inviting instrumentals.

Rebecca of Amazon - Amazon.com HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER
Bradley Powell's flawless playing allows you to completely relax into sleep or relax into an evening of candlelight and romance. I've fallen into a peaceful sleep while listening to this music and have also spent relaxing afternoons reading while The Candlelight Guitarist wove an intricate tapestry of sounds to nurture my heart. ...  Bradley Powell's music is infused with natural ambience. As rich sounds renew your spirit, you can relax into a deep sigh of the heart. His style is artistic, heart healing and filled with romantic and cultural influences.

Vicki Blizzard (Editor, PaperWorks and Crazy for Cross-Stitch! magazines) in CREATIVITY e-Letter: Music to filter into my dreams. My new favorite to listen to is classical guitar music by Bradley Powell..

SKU: A0.836707

What’s Christmas without a few toys?

Here is a new suite of older carols for string quartet in which each musician is required to play a wee bit of percussion in addition to his or her real instrument. The potential for entertaining visual theater is nearly as high as the potential for mishap. (If all goes according to plan, nothing should actually go airborne.)

This is something of a sequel to my earlier Christmas quartet And Therefore Be Merry, which has never been out of print since it was first published over twenty years ago. But where that work was a continuous medley, this is a set of independent and more fully developed movements, each able to stand on its own.

As mentioned above, each member of the quartet is responsible for a small item of percussion. These are all things which could readily be found in a local school band room: a triangle, a tambourine, a suspended cymbal - played with a soft (yarn) stick - and a small frame drum, played with the bare hand.

These are all earlier, earthier carols than what one typically finds on the radio or playing over the speakers at the mall. They include Gloucestershire Wassail, Riu Riu Chiu, Angelus ad Virginem, The Sans Day Carol, The Wexford Carol, and Masters in This Hall. Being perhaps less familiar, they bring a welcome respite from the overworked seasonal fare we all hear a bit too much of each year. They speak of simpler times, and of a far less frantic approach to Christmas. These fresh and inventive arrangements will make a useful addition to a quartet’s repertoire, provided the players have the requisite spirit of adventure.

Score and Parts total 67 pages. Performance time is about 14 minutes.

SKU: A0.1320857

Traditional Christmas Carols for Beginner Pianists by SilverTonalities!

Including fingering tips and the letter names embedded into each notehead. This makes reading music a breeze, especially for beginners and allows you to quickly associate the correct notes and effortlessly recognize the pitch.





- ANGELS FROM THE REALMS OF GLORY, is a Scottish Hymn first published in 1816 and is an invitation to “Come Unto Christ�, pages 1-2

AWAY IN A MANGER, celebrates the birth of Jesus surrounded by gentle animals and adoring angels, pages 3-5
BOARS HEAD CAROL, is a 15th Century English Carol, also known as “The Boars Head in Hand Bear I� which represents the Yuletide feast, 6-7
CAROL OF THE BELLS, with its origins deeply rooted in the Ukraine, this instrumental Carol was composed by Mykola Leontovych in 1916, pages 8-10
DRIVE THE COLD WINTER AWAY, is a 17th Century English Carol, also known as “All Hail to the Days� and/or, “The Praise of Christmas�, pages 11-13
FIRST NOEL, is a traditional English Carol for Epiphany possibly dating back to the 13th Century, pages 14-16
GATHER AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE, is an American Carol by the clergyman John Henry Hopkins Jr ,who also wrote the modern lyrics for the “The First Noel�, pages 17-19
GOLDEN CAROL, is an Old English Carol, representing the Three Wisemen of the Magi on their way to Bethlehem, pages 20-22
HOLLY AND THE IVY, is an English Carol representing the Christmas custom of decking houses and churches with Evergreen, pages 23-25
IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR, is a Carol and Poem written in 1849 by the American Pastor, Edmund Sears, pages 26-28
JINGLE BELLS, the iconic Carol written by James Lord Pierpont in 1857 and published under the title of “One Horse Open Sleigh� in 1857, pages 29-31
O CHRISTMAS TREE, is a traditional German Carol, also known as “O Tannenbaum�, pages 32-33
ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY, is an English Anglican Carol, representing that Christ has ascended once again to glory, pages 34-35
PAT A PAN, also known as “Willie Take Your Little Drum�, is a Carol originating from the Burgundy region of France, pages 36-37
SANS DAY CAROL, is similar to the Holly and the Ivy, in which the holly is used as a symbol of Jesus, pages 38-39
SILENT NIGHT, this classic Austrian Carol was composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber, capturing the spirit of peace and harmony, pages 40-41
SKATER’S WALTZ, or “Les Patineurs� Opus 183, written by the French Composer, Emile Waldteufel in 1882, pages 42-43
STAR OF THE EAST, composed by Amanda Kennedy in 1890, was Ispired by the biblical story of the Star of Bethlehem leading the Wise Men to Jesus, pages 44-46
WATCHMAN TELL US OF THE NIGHT, is an American Carol composed by Lowell Mason, reflecting Isaiah 21:11, pages 47-49
WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT, also known as the “Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour�, pages 50-52

SKU: A0.1138014

Twelve traditional carols have been transcribed and arranged for adult piano students who are in their first few months of playing the piano and reading music. Children will be able to play all the melodies and most of the two-part arrangements without physical strain, but there are other piano methods designed specifically for young pianists’ needs that were not taken into consideration for this collection. The carols come in two versions, one with melody only and the other with an independent left hand part. Many of the melody-only scores are able to be played with just one hand position. For the two-part scores, both hands will need to shift. The left hand parts have been written so that there will be no more than five adjacent ascending or descending notes before the direction of the line changes, allowing for just small shifts in finger or hand placement. Look for more collections of carols arranged for beginning players at this same site. In this collection: Angels we have heard on high Away in a manger God rest ye merry, gentlemen Hark! The herald angels sing Joy to the world O come, all ye faithful O come, O come Emmanuel O little town of Bethlehem (Redner) O little town of Bethlehem (Kingsfold) Silent night The first nowell What child is this?

SKU: AX.00-PC-0017300_VN2

UPC: 038081516929.

A terrific multicultural addition to any beginning holiday concert, this arrangement by Sandra Dackow is a spirited rendition of three traditional German carols. These contrasting carols---Lasst uns froh und munter sein, O Come Little Children, and an unnamed traditional tune---are a fun way to introduce cut time and reinforce bow lifts to young string players. (1:45).

SKU: AX.00-PC-0017300_VA1

UPC: 038081516929.

A terrific multicultural addition to any beginning holiday concert, this arrangement by Sandra Dackow is a spirited rendition of three traditional German carols. These contrasting carols---Lasst uns froh und munter sein, O Come Little Children, and an unnamed traditional tune---are a fun way to introduce cut time and reinforce bow lifts to young string players. (1:45).

SKU: AX.00-PC-0017300_VN1

UPC: 038081516929.

A terrific multicultural addition to any beginning holiday concert, this arrangement by Sandra Dackow is a spirited rendition of three traditional German carols. These contrasting carols---Lasst uns froh und munter sein, O Come Little Children, and an unnamed traditional tune---are a fun way to introduce cut time and reinforce bow lifts to young string players. (1:45).