Product Description
Duets on traditional Christmas Carols, arranged for two intermediate or advancing trombone, euphonium, or bassoon players. If you are looking for simple harmonizations of Christmas Carols, this collection is not for you. If you are looking for something more, you've come to the right place.
Much more than simply the basic familiar melody with a simple harmony part, the Carols included in this collection are: Away in a Manger, Carol of the Bells, the First Noel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Hark the Herald Angel Sings, Medley in 6/8 (In Dulci Jubiloaka Good Christian Men Rejoice, Sussex Carol, and I Saw Three Ships), It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Joy to the World, O Come All Ye Faithful, Silent Night, We Three Kings, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, and What Child is This?
Many have enjoyed the duet arrangements found in 12 Christmas Duets, Volumes 1 & 2, arranged by Kenneth Baird. However, the range and technical demands of many of those arrangements made some of them beyond the reach of many intermediate players. These new arrangements fill the need for Christmas duet arrangements for intermediate players that are interesting, challenging, a joy for friends to play together and a great resource for teachers to play at lessons with their students. Additionally, these are suitable for informal Christmas performances and many are appropriate for Christmas church services.
Most of these new arrangements are based on the earlier more advanced arrangements, but these have fewer range and technical demands, as well as other changes. While still more challenging than the sort of Christmas Carol duets that are commonly found that are simply the basic melody with an added harmony part, most intermediate trombone, euphonium, or bassoon players will find these arrangements to be a great fit. and more advanced players will likely find them enjoyable, too!
For more advanced duet arrangements of Christmas carols, please check out my 12 Christmas Duets and my Christmas Duets, Vol. 2. For much easier duet arrangements of Christmas carols, please check out my Christmas Duets for Young Trombone Players.
Note: the duets in this collection have NOT been arranged to be fully compatible with most of the similarly titled duet collections for other instruments (it is compatible with the collection for trumpet). Instead, these have been arranged specifically for trombone, euphonium, or bassoon players.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.