About the Book
Christmas Music for Easy Piano is now available as Volume One, Volume Two, or Volumes One and Two Combined. Song List:
Angels From the Realms of Glory, Angels We Have Heard on High, Auld Lang Syne, Away in a Manger, The Boar's Head Carol, Bring a Torch, Carol of the Bells, Christ Was Born on Christmas Day, Coventry Carol, Deck the Halls, Ding Dong! Merrily on High, The First Noel, The Friendly Beasts, From Heaven Above to Earth I Come, Gesú Bambino, Go Tell it on the Mountain, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good Christian Men, Rejoice, Good King Wenceslas, Hallelujah Chorus, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Here We Come A-Wassailing, The Holly and the Ivy, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire, Jingle Bells, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, Joy to the World, Noel! Noel!, O Christmas Tree, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, O Holy Night, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Ode to Joy, Once in Royal David's City, Silent Night, Toyland, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Up On the Housetop, We Three Kings, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, What Child is This?, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks. Most of the selections in both volumes have two arrangements: an easier arrangement with block chords, and a more advanced arrangement with broken chords, alberti bass, or counterpoint in the left hand. The simplest harmonizations possible (mostly I, IV, and V7 chords) are used throughout these books to make these songs accessible to late beginning through early intermediate piano players. I use these arrangements to train my own piano students to be able to recognize and execute chords and left hand figures that show up commonly in piano repertoire, while they get to work on music that makes them excited to do the work. Lyrics are appropriately included for convenience, for this book is meant to train piano skill - not to be a collection of singalong arrangements. If you are an absolute beginner and would like the easiest possible arrangements of Christmas music, I have published a book called Christmas Music for Beginning Piano that might be more suitable for your current level. When those start to become 'easy' for you, you will likely be ready for the arrangements in this book. That said, many beginning piano students do quite well in this book.
