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Twenty-four beautifully harmonized duets of Good Old Christmas Tunes, arranged for the Adult Starter of Violin or Fiddle. These are some of the most “fiddle-like” of Christmas Carols, so the melody lines sound great, even without accompaniment.
Add the harmony of the second violin, and you capture the spirit of the most festive songs and dances of Christmas Past.
All Arrangements are in first position and easy-to-play keys. Lyrics are included.
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This great selection of carol duets contains some of the easiest, yet most beautiful carols. Let this be your go-to book for recitals, home and community gatherings, and church worship.
Volume 2, in contrast to the most “fiddle-like” of Christmas Tunes in the previous volume, is filled with the most “violin-like” carols, full of expression, beauty and Christmas feeling.
Twenty-four beautifully harmonized carols, arranged to help beginning to intermediate violinists sound wonderful in performance.
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This collection of 24 beautifully harmonized carol duets adds a little extra: pleasure: Guitar Chord* Diagrams and Sing-along lyrics! Perfect for family gatherings or yuletide recitals.
Songs for the whole family – from Baby to Grandpa – to be practiced and performed as solos or duets, or even by groups of singers or instruments, unique to your situation.
So, warm up your voices, (hot chocolate helps) and tune your guitars, mandolins, ukuleles, and banjos. Dig out the drums, tambourines, and maracas. Then gather around the piano and rosin your bows! It’s Christmas, and everyone gets to make a joyful noise.
*Can be used by Guitar, Piano, Accordion, Mandolin, Banjo, Ukulele and other chord instruments.
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Twenty-five wonderful old songs of faith arranged with an eye to the needs of advancing beginning adult violinists and guitarists.
Each arrangement sounds great as a solo, duet or larger string ensemble, with or without the guitar accompaniment.
Guitar chords are in easy-to-follow diagram format, and all songs are in keys that are familiar to violin and guitar beginners. This book is an excellent way to gain confidence reading sheet music rhythms, by creating the sounds of familiar and beloved Gospel songs and Spirituals.
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You’ll love the musical effect you create with this great collection of old-fashioned Americana. Great for 4th of July or Pioneer Day celebrations, recitals, sing-alongs, jam sessions and get-togethers like family reunions and Senior Centers visits.
Twenty-four beautifully harmonized songs arranged to help advancing beginners on violin or fiddle sound great in performance, complete with guitar chord diagrams for a folk-style accompaniment.
Play them just as the frontier musicians did: as unaccompanied solos or duets. Or, grab a guitar player – or any other chord instrument – and add to that old-time feel.
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Twenty-four more songs from the American Frontier – a collection of violin and fiddle tunes, beautifully harmonized to help advancing beginners sound great.
Use them for recitals, community and family gatherings, and even home schooling, to bring the music of the pioneers, soldiers, sailors, miners and settlers of the American West to life.
Play them just as the frontier musicians did: as unaccompanied solos or duets. Or, grab a guitar player – or any other chord instrument – and add to that old-time feel.
One of the best collections yet of Polkas, Waltzes, Marches, Hoedowns, and sentimental Airs and Ballads, all including guitar chord diagrams and sing-along lyrics.
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Love the sound of a gypsy violin? Or the schmaltz of those love-themes you hear as violins play in old movies, or on gramophones?
Need a performance set for an old-fashioned wedding, anniversary celebration, or a romantic Valentine’s Day? Here are love songs that have stayed in the violin repertoire for more than a century, because they play to the violin’s strength at expressing strong emotion.
“Love Songs of Long Ago” is a hand-picked collection of twelve romantic songs from the late 19th and early 20th Century, including songs by Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, and other hit composers of the era. Harmonized in the style of the day, to be played as solo or duet, without accompaniment.
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Celebrate a Glorious Fourth of July with “You’re A Grand Old Flag” and “Yankee Doodle Boy.” Then sample more of the songs that made George M. Cohan’s Broadway productions the hottest tickets in the early 20th Century.
Full of patriotic vigor, old-fashioned sentiment, and show-stopping spectacle, these tunes have been hummed and played, sung and danced to – and even marched to – for more than a century.
Each song can be played as Solo, Duet or Ensemble. Stand-out melodies and professional harmonies ensure you can enjoy and perform these arrangements without accompaniment or backing tracks, and still sound great.
No matter where you are in your musical ability, you’ll appreciate that all keys in this book are easy to read and play, and everything can all be played in first position. Adult Beginners of Violin and Fiddle are especially encouraged to add these songs to your practice and performance repertoire.
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This special edition, published in June of 2020, was originally intended as a set list for Independence Day, Veteran’s Day, Memorial Day celebrations. I imagined it being helpful to musicians who visit Veterans Homes and other gatherings of Seniors.
I had no idea, as I worked on these arrangements in the early part of the year, what this vulnerable population and their caregivers would suffer this year. What realities our nation would awaken to this year. These songs are important, neither as failed ideals nor as feel-good nostalgia, but as a serious call to remembering our duty of liberty and justice to all citizens.
These are songs of hope. They express emotion and desire, and not a few prayers for help in becoming what we have long pledged to be.
Honoring country, flag, and the ideals of liberty, service and sacrifice, this collection of songs is dedicated to the United States of America: her citizens past and present, and especially her veterans of service and duty.
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