Cello Time Christmas

Blackwell, Kathy; Blackwell, David

ISBN 10: 0193221020 ISBN 13: 9780193221024

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2004

Synopsis

31 Christmas tunes for cello (solos and duets) - all the well-known favourites, plus some less familiar gems. Many tunes are compatible with Fiddle Time Christmas and Viola Time Christmas.

About this title

Review:

Kathy and David Blackwell's Cello Time Christmas, a selection of 31 pieces, contains a wonderfully diverse range of seasonal tunes and carols, all arranged in comfortable keys that allow the cellist to stay in first position throughout. There is a healthy mix of solos and duets - all of which provide easy chord symbols for guitar or keyboard accompaniment - while the words to each song have been clearly and helpfully printed beneath each note. (Catherine Monk, Music Teacher Feb 05)

It is one of the best volumes of Christmas music that I have seen and is produced to the normal high standards of the Cello Time series. (MMA Ensemble Jan 05)

This beautifully presented edition describes itself as 'a stockingful of 31 easy pieces' . . . This is a very well presented book and is a welcome edition to the Christmas selection. (ESTA News and Views Winter 2004)

As Christmas approaches, what better way for young cellists to celebrate than play a selection of carols from Kathy and David Blackwell's timely book . . . Alan Rowe's zestful drawings and colourful cover are sure to entice young players to explore this well-graded selection. Beginners on cello will no doubt recognize many of the tunes so they are more than halfway to learning them. For end of year school parties and concerts, family get-togethers, busking and just plain fun, this book is the perfect pre-Christmas stocking filler. (Australian Music Teacher Nov 04)

About the Author:

Kathy Blackwell, B. Mus. (Hons.), LTCL, LGSM, studied music at Edinburgh University and continued with post-graduate studies in music at the University of Oxford. Kathy is a string teacher with many years experience of teaching violin and viola. She developed her teaching ideas at the coalface in both Music Services and in private practice, working with groups large and small and in one-to-one lessons. She was a strings consultant for the ABRSM Music Medals initiative, a new assessment specifically designed for students taught in groups, and a contributor to the accompanying book All together! Teaching Music in Groups (ABRSM, 2004). Her teaching experience has led her to co-author Fiddle, Viola, and Cello Time, published by Oxford University Press, with her husband, David. Kathy and David have presented workshops in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

David Blackwell studied music at Edinburgh University, after which he pursued a career in music publishing, first at ABRSM and then at Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of OUP's In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5, and has published a number of single choral arrangements. He is co-writer with his wife Kathy of OUP's award-winning string series, Fiddle, Viola, Cello Time, and String Time, which have twice won the MIA award for Best Educational Publication. He now works as a freelance music editor, composer and arranger.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0193221020
• ISBN 13: 9780193221024
• Binding: Sheet music
• Number of pages: 24