A Treasury of Christmas Songs: Twenty-Five Favorites to Sing and Play

by Metropolitan Museum of Art and Dan Fox

Book Overview

Celebrate Christmas with a song! A Christmas songbook illustrated with spectacular art from the Metropolitan Museum A Treasury of Christmas Songs pairs twenty-five well-loved holiday classics with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805076573
• ISBN13: 9780805076578
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

happy holidays

This is a beautiful collection of Christmas songs for the family with outstanding illustrations from museum quality art works. 25 songs are featured here in this collection. Each song has a brief introduction describing its origins or other important facts, and each image also has a description, often including historical tidbits. The illustrations are great! If you are looking for a book of carols to just sing to or for you young musician to play this is the book to get. We would recommend this book. The colorful illustrations make it a good book for young children to look at while singing or playing at the piano.

Voilá!

[This review first appeared in the "Ephrata (Pa.) Review."] Pair an eclectic assortment of museum pieces--paintings, prints and textiles--with musical arrangements of beloved holiday songs. Adorn with tidbits of information about the music and artwork, and wrap in an attractive cover. Voilá--an alluring package. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is illustrated with details from an American coverlet of the late 1700s, images from a Swedish tapestry titled "Marriage at Cana" (early 1800s) and drawings from an Austrian postcard of the early 1900s. "We Three Kings" is paired with the early 15th-century painting "The Journey of the Magi" by Italian artist Stefano di Giovanni. Guitar chords accompany the piano arrangements, which are suitable for beginning and intermediate musicians. This is a production both practical and poetic.