Christmas music :P

[shotkong64x]

with christmas coming up and all i would like to impress my family with some nice christmas music.  Does anyone know where i can find some really nice sounding, but not too hard songs?  (either online or through a certain book?)   I only started playing about 2 months ago..   and the hardest peice ive done so far was a grade IV bach prelude..  just to give u an idea of my skill level.

[Mycroft]

Reader's Digest has a fairly good collection.  I learned their arrangement of Silent Night after two months or so of piano practice myself.  (Except for the opening introduction part with all the chords )

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895771055

Another excellent collection is Hal Leonard's "The Definitive Christmas Collection" with 124 songs included.  It includes Do You Hear What I Hear and Christmas Time is Here.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0793519853

[janice]

  Does anyone know where i can find some really nice sounding, but not too hard songs? 

(clears throat)....
They are not called "songs", but "pieces"

[allchopin]

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4723.msg44642.html#msg44642

[Mycroft]

  Does anyone know where i can find some really nice sounding, but not too hard songs?

(clears throat)....
They are not called "songs", but "pieces"

Why aren't they called songs?  Both of the books I referenced called them songs.  I didn't verify every single one of them, but I'm sure nearly all of them have words and I doubt there's a Christmas prelude or fugue in the bunch.

Is this some kind of automatic post whenever the word song appears in a thread?

[dj]

  Does anyone know where i can find some really nice sounding, but not too hard songs?

(clears throat)....
They are not called "songs", but "pieces"

Why aren't they called songs?  Both of the books I referenced called them songs.  I didn't verify every single one of them, but I'm sure nearly all of them have words and I doubt there's a Christmas prelude or fugue in the bunch.

Is this some kind of automatic post whenever the word song appears in a thread?

actually if there r words, then its a song.... so a lot of the christmas stuff is either songs or based off songs.....if its just an arrangement for piano solo without words, then technically its a piece.

[mach]

Exactly correct... a "song" is sung. A "piece" is played. Given that logic, then, you can in fact play a song, as accompaniment or as a rendition of a popular song.

[iansinclair]

And a word of caution -- a good many Christmas ...songs, pieces, whatever ... were originally dances or otherwise to be moved to, and are surprisingly hard!