Michael Montgomery: 6 Christmas Carols for double bass quartet

About the Quartets 6 Christmas Carols for the intermediate double bass quartet feature inventive and colourful arrangements of popular carols by Michael Montgomery. The use of harmonics adds new colours and textures and these are ideal for concert performance or simply to play with friends. The arrangements are engaging and instantly appealing and the melodic material is often shared between the players.   Table of Contents 1. The lyrics of "Angels We Have Heard on High" were written by the Irish Roman Catholic priest James Chadwick (1813-1882), who in 1862 translated the lyrics to a traditional French song, "Les Anges dans nos campagnes" (first published in France 1843). The text is based largely on Luke 2:8-15, which describes the evening of the birth of Jesus, when shepherds in the fields encountered "a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests.”  2. The words of the first two verses of "A