The First Nowell

Jazz for Christmas Series-A mellow vocal jazz arrangement of a traditional English carol Doug Andrewss setting of The First Nowell features cool clear jazz harmonies and mixed meter. A refreshing change for Christmas programs.

Description Arranged for easy organ/piano vocal, here are twenty-five of the world's best known carols including 'The First Nowell' and 'Good King Wenceslas' - complete with words. Songlist Angels, From The Realms Of Glory Away In A Manger Christians Awake Ding Dong! Merrily On High God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen Good Christian Men, Rejoice Good King Wenceslas Hark How All The Welkin Rings Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Here We Come A-wassailing I Saw Three Ships It Came Upon The Midnight Clear Joy To The World! Misletoe Bough O Come, All Ye Faithful O Little Town Of Bethlehem Once In Royal David's City Silent Night The First Nowell The Holly And The Ivy The Twelve Days Of Christmas The Twelve Days Of Christmas [Traditional] Unto Us A Boy Is Born We Three Kings Of Orient Are We Wish You A Merry Christmas While Shepherds Watched

Contents: 1. Adeste Fideles ('O Come All Ye Faithful')2. Antioch ('Joy To The World! The Lord Is Come')3. Carol ('It Came Upon The Midnight Clear')4. Cradle Song ('Away In A Manger')5. Go Tell It On The Mountain ('Go Tell It On The Mountain')6. Greensleeves ('What Child Is This')7. In Dulci Jubilo ('Good Christian Friends Rejoice')8. Picardy ('Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence')9. Polish Carol ('Infant Holy Infant Lowly')10. Regent Square ('Angels From The Realms Of Glory')11. St. Louis ('O Little Town Of Bethelhem')12. Stille Nacht ('Silent Night Holy Night')13. Stuttgart ('While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night')14. The First Nowell ('The First Nowell The Angels Did Say')15. Three Kings Of Orient ('We Three Kings Of Orient Are')16. Veni Veni Emmanuel ('O Come O Come Emmanuel')17. Winchester Old ('While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night')

A Carol Symphony Hely-Hutchinson’s best-known work is composed in four movements. The first Adeste Fideles is arranged in the form of a Bach Chorale with brass taking the Vocal lines and Strings skittering underneath. The second movement gives God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’s minor tonalities a Russian feel. The third uses the Coventry Carol and The First Nowell as its base with particularly haunting harp theme. In the final movement Here We Come A-Wassailling appears as well as a fugal rendering of Adeste Fideles. Victor Hely-Hutchinson was a child prodigy who went on to have a successful career as a conductor pianist and accompanist as well as a composer and wasmostly known for his works on the theme of Christmas melodies and his settings of children’s nursery rhymes.

Although the traditions began several centuries ago, here is a colorful medley of carols that were popular in Victorian England in contemporary treatments. Including 'The Holly and the Ivy,' 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen,' and 'The First Nowell,' this is properly joyous music for the happiest time of the year. (2:30) / Concert Band

Skilled arranger Richard Lloyd provides six rewarding duets for teacher and pupil at middle-grade level (Grade 3-4). Six Carols For Pupil And Teacher includes Away in a manger Hark theherald-angels sing Come all ye faithful Once in royal David's city Silent night and The first Nowell.