Customer Reviews for My Very Best Christmas - Violin Edition
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Delia Southorn
Location: from Lindisfarne, TAS
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
February 7, 2012
Great to have
I'm ready for Christmas in 2012 with great duets to perform. My CD play along will go well with solos when my accompanist is on holidays!!
8 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Location: from Overseas
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 21, 2011
Highly Recommended
I'm a beginning violinist who reads music, and this book was perfect for the Christmas season. I really enjoyed playing with the CD and also played duets with my teacher during the lesson thanks to the two part sheet music. This book was a terrific fit for me, but it would probably be too difficult for beginning violinists who are just learning to read music (like my daughters, who haven't really used it -- hopefully next year!).
5 of 11 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from NJ
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
January 21, 2009
Great for beginners!
This book is excellent for beginning violin students who want to quickly learn christmans music to play for the holidays. Highly Recommended!
23 of 47 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
January 17, 2009
Fun
An excellent set of classical christmas tunes easy and fun to play along the piano. The piano has anice intro for the violin to come in with it's chrristmas melodies! All I can say . . fun!
20 of 44 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Orange County, NY
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
January 14, 2009
A Good Christmas Hymns Book for Violin
This is a beautiful selection of Christian hymns for Christmas. My daughter is NYSSMA Level 5 and found the music to be very easy. She played at our church along with the CD. The music touched people's hearts! I highly recommend this book w/CD accompaniment for any violin student.
21 of 48 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Netherlands
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
January 13, 2009
easy pieces with great sound
The music is easy to play AND sounds great, even in the arrangement of only two violins or one violin and piano. But of course it sounds best with 2 violins and piano. The songs are suitable to sing along. A real enjoyable book.
18 of 43 people found this review helpful.
Cyril Lever, Jr
Location: from Lansdale, PA
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 25, 2008
We can praise our Lord & Savior with Music
First you should know that I have just started violin, and just retired at age 79. I now have time to practice. I purchased two copies of the above, one for my teacher, and one for me. Another student went out and purchased a copy. Paid to much for it, I bet, but they played some of the songs and they loved doing it. Our teacher and another of her studens played violin II, as another student (the one who paid too much) and me, played violin I, or melody. My wife played the piano part. We had such a wonderful time. This made Christmas very special. Thanks for being here for us.
22 of 40 people found this review helpful.
Colleen
Location: from Maryland
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
December 11, 2008
Good variety of sing along classics
My daughter wanted to learn some tunes to play at Christmas with the family. This had several great selections- both for more classic stand alone pieces and sing alongs.
4 of 11 people found this review helpful.
Jed
Location: from VT
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 11, 2008
Great Fun!
This collections of songs has been great fun to play. The arrangment sounds good and the CD works well for practice.
5 of 12 people found this review helpful.
Amanda
Location: from Someset, KY
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
December 1, 2008
Just What I Wanted
My daughter has been taking violin for two years. We wanted some pieces that she could play and I accompany her on piano for our church. This book was perfect. The violin pieces are just difficult enough to challenge her and some of the piano pieces are a bit of a challenge for me. This book has given us a lot of fun together. We are playing at her recital as well as our church. There is a good selection of pieces and I would recommend it.
5 of 12 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Erie, CO
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
January 31, 2008
Great Book!
The arrangements and CD are simply wonderful! I bought this book to have some Christmas music with accompaniment to play for family and friends over the holidays and was very pleased. One or two of the arrangements are a little more challenging than the others. They're all beautifully done.
6 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Liz Tyner
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
January 26, 2008
A good book for the holidays.
If a Suzuki student is interested in learning Christmas Music, this book would be the first one to purchase. I'm a beginning adult student, and enjoyed practicing the songs. The CD doesn't have the actual violin performance like the Suzuki series does, but I think most people will not even notice because the accompaniment CD is almost the same as having the teacher play along with the student in class.
8 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Marion Bregande, Director of Music
Location: from First Baptist Church, Jamesville, New York
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
January 22, 2008
Nice alternative accompaniments
These were exciting alternatives to traditional carol accompaniments. They also included interesting introductions and codas. This is written for 2 violins and piano. But since I had a string trio, the cellist was also able to double some of the piano bass lines. What a memorable candlelight Christmas Eve Service!
4 of 12 people found this review helpful.
Marie-Ange JOUEN
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
January 11, 2008
Beautiful
My daughter wished a Christmas violin score partition, she liked a lot playing these traditional Christmas and all the family was happy of this lovely moment.
6 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
January 10, 2008
Wonderful Christmas Duets for the violin!!!
For this Christmas my daughter (she is in Suziki 4 book) and I (I haven't played in over 20 years) played 10 mins. of pre-service music for our church. This book is awesome! It has a CD that has the piano part (if you want). The songs work well for a duet or for solos. It was all very easy for my daughter and so much fun to play. I played most of the Violin 2 parts because they were easier for me. Most of our songs lasted about 2 mins. each. Silent Night, Away in the Manager, Infant Holy and much more! I would recommend this to anyone looking for all their Christmas favorites that are not too difficult to play.
6 of 12 people found this review helpful.
Cheryl Cooper
Location: from Sioux Falls, SD
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
January 3, 2008
Awesome
I have a granddaughter that plays 1st or 2nd violin. She has taken private lessons and played for our Christmas Eve service. I wanted the music of Christmas Carols and also a piano accompaniment with it. It also came with a CD and 2nd violin sheet music so it was an awesome package of music and had the carols that I enjoy. It was a wonderful musical service and we were blessed with the musical talent of our granddaughter playing the violin and our Pastor who accompanied her. Thanks again.
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
John
Location: from Georgia
Difficulty Level:
Not sure
December 14, 2007
very pleased
shipped immediately, had product in a very time mannor. Was exactly what we ordered, no problems. Would order from them again.
4 of 11 people found this review helpful.
Charlie
Location: from South Texas
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 10, 2007
Great music for beginners and intermediate
I have been playing violin for a little over 1 year. This music was very easy for me, yet has a very good arrangement that is not boring. The piano accompaniment is awesome.
6 of 12 people found this review helpful.
TSide
Location: from Denver, CO
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 6, 2007
A great next step for the biginner
This is a great buy for a beginner that wants to feel successful by playing music that the whole family can enjoy, while still being challenged by some harder pieces. I was playing ‘Come, All Ye Faithful’ on day one...
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Williamsport, PA
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
December 6, 2007
Great Versatility
This book has great versatility. There are separate booklets for Violin Parts I and II, and the play-along CD can be used for practice or performance. The piano accompaniment and violin parts can each be easily improvised depending on the skill levels of all the players involved. This was my first book of Christmas music for violin. I bought it to use with two granddaughters who are Suzuki violinists. I could not be more pleased with my selection.
5 of 12 people found this review helpful.
Michael Johnston
Location: from Shawnee, OK
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
November 19, 2006
Karen Khangov
Karen Khanagov is a phenominal composer and director, I am one of his students at the University of Central Oklahoma. He has taught me to play cello. These pieces of music are beautifully composed and written.
5 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Heidi
Location: from Longview, Washington
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
November 20, 2004
Wonderful
Was looking for something for my boys to play for Christmas. They are intermediate to Advanced. Were able to play all songs right away but the plus to this is the piano accompaniment. It actually finishes the songs off when you play them for show. Just a really nice nice selection of songs. I will now always look for the CD accompaniment discs!
4 of 12 people found this review helpful.
cRaZy FidDlEr
Location: from usa
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
November 2, 2003
beautiful
beautiful music. songs included in this book: Joy to the World; O Come, All Ye Faithful; Deck the Halls; Angels from the Realms of Glory; Away In A Manger; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; The First Noel; What Child Is This?; Angels We Have Heard On High; Silent Night; O Little Town of Bethlehem; We Three Kings; O Holy Night; Jingle Bells; We Wish You A Merry Christmas
6 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Dawson
Location: from san frencisco,CA
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
December 15, 2002
the best ever
hi this is the best ever
4 of 11 people found this review helpful.