2024 the best of the carpenters songs review

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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This stellar collection features piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of all the songs from Karen and Richard Carpenter's million-selling 1978 Christmas album. Includes 36 of the season's best: Ave Maria * Carol of the Bells * Christ Is Born * The Christmas Song * The Christmas Waltz * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Home for the Holidays * I'll Be Home for Christmas * It Came upon a Midnight Clear * It's Christmas Time * Little Altar Boy * Merry Christmas, Darling * O Holy Night * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silent Night * Sleigh Ride * and more!

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hal Leonard (September 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0634032410
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0634032417
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.07 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 0.35 x 12 inches
Reviewer: BillEvansFan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Christmas arrangements Carpenter-style
Review: This is a great sheet music collection based on the Carpenter's Christmas special from many years ago. The special is available on cd and is my very favorite Christmas album ever. Wish the special was on dvd. While you can't match Karen's great, warm singing on the piano, these are faithful arrangements and not overly difficult to play. I wore out my first copy. I really recommend this to anyone who loves Christmas music.

Reviewer: Cindy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best Christmas album/arrangements!
Review: Best Christmas arrangements, you can pickup the CD or DVD of the same Christmas Portrait title, and all of the arrangements for the various single songs and medley versions as recorded. Great!

Reviewer: Enzo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome!
Review: Love playing every Christmas! Never gets old, love all the arrangements.

Reviewer: Craig Matteson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sheet music version of the Christmas album of the same name (which you can and should download, as well).
Review: This is the sheet music version of the music collection called The Carpenters Christmas Portrait. I recommend you download the album and listen carefully to the beautiful arrangements Richard Carpenter put on that album and the velvety alto voice of Karen Carpenter. This will help you understand what you should try to achieve when playing these pieces. Obviously, the simplified arrangements here will not sound like a professionally produced album, but you can get in the spirit of the thing better if you have the right sound in your ears. And if you are a more advanced musician, you can build your own arrangement using those recordings and this sheet music as your launching pad.There was a time when recording artists did seasonal albums because they sell each and every year. I am glad this music is still around for us to enjoy because I miss Karen's voice so much. She was a more sophisticated singer than people appreciate. And I admire Richard's skill as a pianist and arranger very very much. He is a lot better than he often gets credit for. Very fine stuff.

Reviewer: KimmiJo
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love the arrangements in this
Review: Love the arrangements in this. This book is done in the original key, so there are some seriously low notes in some of these arrangements. I think the lowest vocal note is an E-flat below middle C. Karen Carpenter has some serious basement notes for a female! I used this with my Baritone and Bass students and they loved the arrangements. The piano accompaniment has some yummy jazz chords throughout. The only drawback here is that the songs that are multiple song medley are hard to sing separately, I had to write my own intro and ending sometimes because they are all blended together hence the 4 star.

Reviewer: Granola
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Exactly as promised!!
Review: This book is in great shape and came quickly. I’m so happy to have it for the holiday season.

Reviewer: orla kitty
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: my christmas present to myself
Review: i had no idea this was in print, but the carpenters are very special to me. i bought it immediately as soon as i saw it was available. i have the same range as karen and my mama always said i sounded like her. well it’s probably because i was raised on carpenters! a must for anyone who loves the carpenters.

Reviewer: Gerry Keller
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A treasure hunt, and a treasure
Review: I had heard a song on the radio a year ago at Christmastime that was done by The Carpenters. I am a church soloist, and I wanted to sing this song this Christmas. After much searching and researching, I found the name of the song, then the name of the album, then I turned to Amazon.com, and found the song book for the album. Now I will be singing the beautiful lullaby "Christ is Born" this Christmas season. This song book is a treasure of Christmas standards, as well as a few Carpenters' originals, such as "Merry Christmas, Darling". I will be using this songbook every Christmas!

Reviewer: Marcel Georges
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Happy to own the Carpenters style of music.

Reviewer: kuniko
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 一番大好きなクリスマスのＣＤがカーペンターズです。　このＣＤコピーになりますが、相当な細かい音まで正確にコピーされているので、感激です。　ただ、ものすごく高度な内容でもあるので、初心者、中級者にも弾くのは難しいかも・・　私は音大を出ていますが、それでも結構、頭使いながら弾くところがあります。　音が難しい事や臨時記号が多いので。　でもすっごく気に入っています