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A Harper's Yuletide

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20 old and new tunes for the season arranged or composed by Karen, some with variations, suitable for elementary to advanced players. Arranged in 13 sets, or playable as stand alone tunes.

CONTENTS

Here We Come A-Wassailing / Brightest and Best / A Virgin Most Pure / The Cherry Tree Carol / The Wassail Set / Gloucestershire Wassail / Apples of Edinburgh*  / Down in Yon Forest / My Dancing Day set / The Boar’s Head Carol / Gaudete / The Winter Solstice Set* (Winter Solstice Eve / The 21st Reel / Yule Log Polka) / O Little Town of Bethlehem / A Shetland Carol  set / O Come, O Come Emmanuel / Am Baile Geamhraidh Leam Féin (In the Winter Habitation Alone) / The Merry Christmas / Aoibhneas Moire Mhin (The Joys of Gentle Mary) / Love Came Down at Christmas (Gartan)
*tunes composed by Karen Marshalsay

About this music
These are some of my favourite tunes to play over the Yuletide season, alongside
some new ones of my own and a couple that I found in older collections while
putting this book together. I’ve arranged some of them in sets as I play them but
they all also work well as individual pieces. The book is suitable for elementary to
advanced players. In some pieces less experienced players might wish to only play
the first time through the tune and repeat that rather than going on to the more
advanced sections, and sometimes I have written a separate simpler version.
Players can also adapt what’s written to their current level, playing harmonics as
standard notes for example or not playing all of the written left hand. I hope that
less experienced players will develop their skills each year and play more of the
arrangements and that these tunes will become part of your Christmas and Winter
Solstice celebrations for many years to come.

Karen Marshalsay
Edinburgh 2021
You will get a PDF (6MB) file