Re: Childrens christmas music for tuba?


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Posted by You Need...... on December 11, 2003 at 13:18:16:

In Reply to: Childrens christmas music for tuba? posted by dennis on December 10, 2003 at 08:34:02:

"Christmas Favorites" Tuba Edition, Hal Leonard #HL00862514 $4.95
ISBN #0-7935-1765-6
Solos and band arrangements correlated with Essential Elements Band Method
Arranged by Michael Sweeney
Each song includes:
Solo page with lyrics (tuba has the full melody line in the tuba book),
Full band arrangement.
Songs included:
Jingle Bells
Up on the Housetop
Hanukkah Song
Holly Jolly Christmas
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Frosty the Snowman
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Jingle Bell Rock
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Christmas Song

All the above are _really easy_ to play, and sound good at twice the indicated tempos.

Also consider:

"Candadian Brass Christmas Solos" for Tuba & Piano
Intermediate Level
Recorded by Charles Daellenbach of the Canadian Brass
(book includes CD: soloist with piano and piano accompanyment alone)
Hal Leonard #HL50482490
ISBN# 0-7935-5129-3
$16.95
Tunes included (no lyrics):
Angels We Have Heard on High
First Noel
Gesu Bambino
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
I Saw Three Ships
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
O Holy Night
Once in Royal David's City
Silent Night

There is also a book published for Tuba to accompany a Yamaha beginner band series that has three lines for each tune.....for three part harmony. Don't have the details on that book at hand.........


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