Instrumentation: Piano
Composed by James Bastien.
Format: Book
Level or Grade: 4
Series: Bastien Holiday Collections; Popular Christmas Songs

Not only is this outstanding series of popular Christmas favorites appealing to students, it is the most pedagogically structured choice of teachers everyewhere. Use the Primer Level for your beginner's first Christmas performance. Level 1 features easy piano arrangements using I, IV, and V7 chords in the keys of C, G, and F. Level 2 introduces more hand position movement. Sophisticated arrangements in a wider variety of keys are used in Levels 3 and 4. Each level is correlated with Bastien Piano Basics or any other method at a comparable level.

Song list:
Deck the Halls
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
Silent Night
March Of The Three Kings
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Jingle Bells
Fum, Fum, Fum
Away In A Manger
Joy To The World
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
We Three Kings