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Jingle Tingles!
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This is a jolly version of "Jingle Bells" for one or two flutes with accompaniment provided by piano or one of three available backing tracks.

This arrangement has three difficulty levels - "Easier", "Medium" and "Harder".

Celebrate during the Christmas / Holiday period with this happy, uplifting arrangement of this well-loved classic seasonal tune.
Jon Raybould

Fresh ideas in flute music
"Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and most commonly sung American songs in the world.
It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in September 1857.

Listen (HARDER difficulty version):
It was originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir for Thanksgiving, or as a drinking song.

Although it has no original connection to Christmas, it became associated with winter and Christmas music in the 1860s and 1870s, and it was featured in a variety of parlour songs and college anthologies in the 1880s.
It was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder; this recording, believed to be the first Christmas record, is lost, but an 1898 recording also from Edison Records survives.

Flute 1 parts (Easier, Medium and Harder).
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To download the flute and piano score,
or

Flute and piano (or backing track).
Score and flute parts - for all three difficulty levels (easier, medium and harder) in one download:
$6 (£5.49)