In Recital with Popular Christmas Music, Book 1

In Recital® with Popular Christmas Music series features fabulous popular Christmas music edited and performed by Helen Marlais. The intermediate level student is provided with a wide array of popular Christmas selections of their choice. Such titles as: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day A Marshmallow World Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) a new popular original by Edwin McLean Light One Candle and more will become favorite Christmas repertoire. Includes a CD with special listening activities as well as background information about the pieces and composers.

In Recital® with Popular Christmas Music series features fabulous popular Christmas music edited and performed by Helen Marlais. Book 4 for the early intermediate student offers such hits as: Here We Come A-Wassailing; Christmas Eve in My Home Town; Mary Did You Know? and a soon to be popular original by Kevin Olson Mister Snowman. Your early intermediate student will have these plus many more selections to choose from to fill their holiday with great Christmas music! A CD with listening activities plus interesting information about the pieces and composers are included.

In Recital® with Popular Christmas Music series features fabulous popular Christmas music edited and performed by Helen Marlais. The late intermediate level student will love the arrangements created for Book 6. Carol of the Bells Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Home for the Holidays I'll be Home for Christmas and It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year are just a few of the titles that students will enjoy throughout the Christmas season. Includes a CD with special listening activities as well as background information about the pieces and composers.

Recital Music has developed a large exciting and eclectic catalogue of Christmas music for choirs in recent years. Some works are published for the first time others are in new editions and we aim to provide accessible and enjoyable choral music for choirs of all ages and abilities. Enjoy!Shout for the King! is a joyous and vibrant carol for junior choir and piano. It's Latin-American influence has proved popular with choirs and audiences alike and a double bass and percussion can easily be added for extra energy and atmosphere.Chord symbols are included for optional double bass or guitar accompaniment.The composer writes: 'Shout forthe King! was composed one evening in December 2004. At the time I was training as a Primary School teaching assistant and involved in playing the piano for the school's various Christmas musical events and concerts. It was the first time I had written both lyrics and music which both came to me at the same time. I subsequently taught the song to the children in the days which followed which they loved and it was the first time a 'real' composer had written anything for them. A week later it was premiered at the school carol concert with me playing the piano.I have always wanted to write a new and catchy Christmas carol drawing influences from all the familiar ones we know and love every Christmas. I also wanted the melody of the verses and chorus to be catchy and repetitive and would be easy and enjoyable for junior choirs to learn. I have always had a fondness for Latin-American rhythms hence the happy groove which I think add to the appeal!'Born in Cardiff in 1975 and trained in piano and flute at school Jay Mackie studied composition as an undergraduate at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from 1997-2000 and completed an MMus gaining a distinction in Composition in 2004.At college Jayson received three scholarship prizes for composing where his Wind Quintet was a featured work at the ISCM's World Music Days