Christmas With a Twist

Festival Classics is a progressively graded collection of classic solos with piano accompaniment. The book contains a fine mix of transcriptions of familiar classics along with solos written specifically for the instrument. Many of the pieces in this collection are on state contest/festival required music lists and cover performance levels from grade 2 through 5. There is a wide variety of music from all style periods and by some of the greatest composers of all time. As an added bonus there is an included data CD that contains MP3 audio files of the piano accompaniments to make praticing more fun. The data CD also includes all of the piano accompaniment parts for allof the pieces in the collection as printable PDF files. a variety of recognizable styles. Play Jingle Bells as a bluesy shuffle, The First Noël like a popular punk-rock tune, Silent Night as a country ballad, Angels We Have Heard on High reminiscent of the Fab Four and many more cleverly written and enjoyable arrangements. The wind and brass books are compatible among themselves. Each book comes with a Data CD that contains mp3 play-along tracks and piano accompaniments in PDF format. A refreshing twist on holiday classics that will provide great musical fun.