Christmas Piano Solos - Level 1

Christmas Piano Solos: Level 1 (Hal Leonard Student Piano Library). Arranged by Phillip Keveren, Mona Rejino and Fred Kern. For Piano/Keyboard. Educational Piano Library. Softcover. 16 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

This collection of best-loved children's carols is the perfect book for beginning piano students. The horizontal-format book and large-staff notation make the songs easy to read and learn. Each song includes an optional teacher accompaniment. Fully orchestrated CD and GM accompaniment disks are available separately. The CDs have both 'a practice' and 'a performance' track for each song.

7 solos corresponding to Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 1: Away in a Manger • Go, Tell It on the Mountain • Good King Wenceslas • Jingle Bells • Jolly Old St. Nicholas • O Come, O Come Immanuel • We Three Kings of Orient Are.

Level: Early Elementary. Basic note values and rests, quarter – whole note/rest; 3/4, 4/4 meter; basic dynamics from p–f, movement by steps and skips only; single–line melodies. Reading range: Bass Clef Middle G – Treble Clef Middle G; keyboard guides show hand placement.

About SMP Primer Level (Early Elementary) 

Very beginning music. Five-finger positions with no chords and almost no hand position movement.