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Christmas music that is unfamiliar is a great find! My family and many of my piano students have loved this piece (first heard on a harp CD) for years. It really does sound like a lullaby, with the rocking sound of the back-and-forth open 5th chords going up and down an octave (like When Christ was Born).
This is a nice, easy piano piece, except for the third part. The melody is exactly the same with each repetition (there are four returns of the theme). But the left hand gets progressively harder in each section.
I like to give this piece to students who are needing a soft, pretty piano piece. When I say NEEDING a soft piece, I'm talking about heavy-handed piano students who think and play at one level -- FORTE! I like also for students to have a bit of time to memorize the right hand melody before starting the third section with its quickly-moving eighth notes, so that they can give most of their attention to the left hand. It is admittedly tricky!
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