On Christmas Morning

• Level: Late Elementary
• Pages: 5 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
• Style: Tender and excited
• Bonus: mp3 performance track + QR code to access recording online
• Format: PDF instant download

On Christmas Morning is a tender, yet excited piece that evokes the joy and wonder of a day you’ve anticipated for weeks. As you play, you can secretly sing “On the morning of Christmas…” every time the main motive appears. The B section features chord inversions that sound like bells ringing in the joy of Christmas day before the return of the lovely theme!

What level is On Christmas Morning?

On Christmas Morning is a late elementary solo in common time. It is written in C Major. The eighth note is the smallest note value, and the main motives feature simple syncopations. The B section showcases parallel second inversion chords in the right hand. There is frequent use of ledger line notes for the right hand. The left hand plays three full seventh chords (i.e., with four notes in the chord), but the smallest interval is a 7th. On Christmas Morning contains easy-to-learn motives that fit easily under the hands, and the pedagogical fingerings and careful editing make hand position changes and cross-hand sections feel natural.

Bonus recording included and QR Code for students

On Christmas Morning comes with a bonus mp3 recording performed by Wendy Stevens. You are permitted to send this example performance track to your students to help them learn the piece.

Plus, a QR code is included on the first page of the PDF (not pictured in the sample) so students can scan the code and it will take them directly to the performance recording of the piece. This can help them be inspired and learn the piece even more effectively without you having to send the mp3 to them!

More About the Exploring Beautiful Places Series:

This series of late elementary pieces builds on the elementary In Beautiful Places series that is composed specifically to appeal to teens and adults. Exploring Beautiful Places helps students progress in their rhythms (eighth notes are added in this series) and moving around more fluidly around the piano.

You can see other pieces in the Exploring Beautiful Places Series here:

• • • Exploring Beautiful Places 1
    • Exploring Beautiful Places 2
    • Winter’s Twilight
    • On Christmas Morning (that’s this piece)

What is the Studio License?

On Christmas Morning is delivered digitally (through your email receipt) and is studio licensed. This means that you can print and use this for any student that you directly teach for your entire lifetime of teaching.