(Music Sales America). The complete vocal score of Handel's Messiah plus forty traditional carols of Christmas. This authoritative volume presents the most widely used Messiah vocal score. Here you will find all of the choruses and solos with complete piano reduction of Handel's magnificent orchestra. This book also includes an exquisite selection of Christmas carols in traditional four-part arrangements. As a comprehensive treasure of the word's most cherished Christmas music, Messiah Sing and Caroling is a valuable addition to every music library. So whether you are going out to a "Messiah Singalong," enjoying a Christmas concert, or simply caroling with friends, you will get a lifetime of holiday pleasure from this handy volume.
(Fake Book). This handy collection perfect for caroling or Christmas parties has been updated! The second edition now features melody, lyrics, and chords for 80 favorite carols and songs: Away in a Manger * Blue Christmas * Christmas Time Is Here * Do You Hear What I Hear * Frosty the Snow Man * Good King Wenceslas * The Holly and the Ivy * It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas * Jingle Bells * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * My Favorite Things * O Holy Night * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Silent Night * The Twelve Days of Christmas * White Christmas * and more.
Ten-minute presentation of best-loved selections from the Christmas portion of Handel's Messiah includes opportunities for congregational participation.
Robert J. Powell presents another splendid collection of beautiful hymn tunes from around the world for the Advent/Christmas season. The pieces represent a variety of moods such as peace, radiance, and anticipation. Titles include: Maria Walks Amid the Thorn (German) * Welcome, Dear Baby Jesus (Dutch) * Baloo, Lammy (Scottish) * A Day of Joy and Feasting (English) and more. Congregations will surely be moved by these arrangements.
Now Proclaim Messiah’s Birth is an enjoyable collection of some of the most-cherished Christmas melodies. Arranged in a variety of styles, these fresh, imaginative interpretations of timeless carols were written to help you proclaim the Christmas story through song. Titles: * Angels from the Realms of Glory * Angels We Have Heard on High * Coventry Carol * Ding, Dong, Merrily On High * Fum, Fum, Fum * O Come, All Ye Faithful * Pat-a-Pan * Silent Night * Ukrainian Bell Carol * We Three Kings.
Nothing moves the Christmas spirit like caroling. Sing on the way to Grandmother’s house. Sing going for the tree. Sing while heading to shop and back. Then bring the party in from the car, pop the CD in the stereo, and gather family, friends, and neighbors for eggnog and song—caroling has never been so joyful, activity-filled, or convenient. Announcing Christmas Sing-Along Car-i-oke, a holiday fun kit featuring a book of 17 great sing-along carols plus other musical activities, a CD of accompanying music, and three booklets of lyrics for the backseat. The second book after All-American Car-i-oke, with 110,000 copies in print, Christmas Sing-Along Car-i-ike is a family Christmas concert and talent show between covers: Get right into the mood with the caroler’s favorite, “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”; turn up the rousing factor with a hand-clapping “Go Tell It on the Mountain”; join the Messiah’s “Hallelujah Chorus”; then glide into a tender “Silent Night” with solo guitar accompaniment—just the way the song was unveiled on Christmas Eve, 1818. Plus there’s the Backseat Ballet Company’s production of The Nutcracker, a hip-hop version of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” even a recorder lesson that will teach you how to play “Jingle Bells” and other tunes. The CD is filled with musical variety (a bluegrass version of “Good King Wenceslas”; an original reggae carol, “Bah, Humbug!”), and just enough vocals to keep everyone together; the 64-page book contains not only all the lyrics, but also tips on singing and Christmas history, lore, and trivia; the three booklets contain just the lyrics. Play it early, play it often, for the merriest of holidays.
Catholic All Year Hymns and Carols for Advent and Christmas contains the lyrics for all the hymns and carols recommended in the book The Catholic All Year Compendium: Liturgical Living for Real Life for the Advent and Christmas seasons. (Music is not included, just lyrics. If you're unfamiliar with the tunes to any of the songs, try listening to recorded versions to learn these great classic songs with your family.)Includes: SONGS FOR ADVENTCome Thou Long Expected Jesus; Lo! How a Rose E're Blooming; O Come, O Come Emmanuel; Veni, Veni Emmanuel; Creator Alme Siderum; Creator of the Stars of Night; O Come Divine Messiah; Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence; The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came; People Look East; I'll Be Home for Christmas; Christmas Is Coming; Silver Bells; Santa Claus is Coming to Town; Deck the Halls; Jingle BellsSONGS FOR CHRISTMASI Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In; Children Go Where I Send Thee; Angels We Have Heard on High; What Child Is This?; Joy to the World; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; O Come All Ye Faithful; Adeste Fideles; O Little Town of Bethlehem; The First Noel; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; We Wish you a Merry Christmas; Coventry Carol; The Twelve Days of Christmas; Holy God We Praise Thy Name; We Three King
In today's "hurry-up" world, it seems we rarely take the time to think of other people and "walk a mile in the other man's shoes." If we did, what would we see? They Worshiped Him revisits the nativity story from the perspective of the people who were actually there. In this dramatic retelling, we glimpse the innermost thoughts and feelings of some of the very common people whose lives were forever changed by a most extraordinary event. What did the shepherds feel? What did others think of them? Were they perceived as "eccentric"? And what about the wise men who followed the star? Did they have an entire entourage, or did people treat them like three dottering old men? And what about Mary and Joseph; how did this unusual pregnancy affect them? They Worshiped Him answers many of these questions while reminding us of the biblical characters' humanity. The singing of favorite seasonal carols is woven into the drama, encouraging audience participation. And it's an adaptable work that can be staged as elaborately or simply as you wish. While there are speaking parts for 12 angels, 5 animals, 6 shepherds, 3 magi, the innkeeper, Mary, Joseph, and a narrator, roles can easily be combined for use with any size congregation. Staging instructions are included. Far too many plays being marketed to churches today are not well written, place unreasonable requirements on the space and talent available in the average local church, and contain biblically inaccurate statements and characterizations. Gail Keffer's play They Worshiped Him doesn't present any of those problems. It is written in a flexible manner that makes it easy to adapt to a worship service, dinner theater, or a feature-length play for an annual Christmas production. It also does a magnificent job of presenting a biblically accurate version of the nativity story that can be heard, understood, and remembered by all of God's children.... We used this play two years ago, and people are still talking about it. One comment I heard was that the play "made Mary seem like a real person and not a stained-glass Madonna who's out of touch with the realities people like us face." Kari Turner McClellan Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church Levittown, Pennsylvania Gail K. Keffer is a graduate of Slippery Rock University (B.S. and M.Ed.). An active member of Clen-Moore Presbyterian Church in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Keffer is a former schoolteacher who has run a needlework design business and is currently the proprietor of The Amish Peddler, a business specializing in the sale of fine Amish-made furniture.
