The Little Christmas Book

Enjoy 13 songs for children's voices, Orff instruments, and recorders. Includes four original and nine traditional songs; six of the songs may be performed as canons. The orchestrations for the songs are created in the traditional Orff style with recommendations on developing children's own orchestrations. The short ostinati accompaniment patterns are sometimes only 1 or 2 measures in length. Mary Helen demonstrates how the rhythmic building brick and model word processes espoused by Gunild Keetman can be used to develop students' composition and improvisation skills and enhance their reading and writing notation abilities. Notes with teaching or performance suggestions are given for each piece. For grades 1 to 6.

Instruments:

• soprano and alto glockenspiel
• soprano, alto, and bass xylophone
• soprano, alto, and bass metallophone
• soprano recorder
• guitar
• timpani
• hand drum
• conga
• maracas
• triangle

Contents:

• Christmas Bell (can be performed in canon)
• Ivy, Holly and Mistletoe (can be performed in canon)
• Arroro Mi Nino (Uruguayan folk song)
• Bethlehem Lay Sleeping (American folk song, can be performed in canon)
• The Friendly Beasts (medieval French carol)
• Joyeux Noel (can be performed in canon)
• Austrian Carol Christmas Comin' (West Indian folk song)
• Puer Natus est Nobis (can be performed in canon)
• Carol of the Birds (French folk song)
• The Holly and the Ivy (English carol)
• Dona Nobis Pacem (traditional Latin canon)
• Venite Adoremus