Compatible Christmas Duets for Strings

Description

Cello — The intention of Compatible Christmas Duets is toprovide string instrument players the opportunity toplay fifty popular Christmas carols in arrangementsfor two instruments. These duets will work with anycombination of any two string instruments, so youcan play carols with your friends no matter whatinstrument they play. There are endless possibilitiesfor using duet combinations for fun and entertainmentaround the holidays. You can play for family, friendsor in a concert setting.Taken from our years of experience as musicteachers, composers and arrangers, the CompatibleChristmas Duets provide you with interesting andplayable arrangements. They can also help to makepractice time fun around the holidays and can beused with friends and teachers as well. One of thebest ways to improve as a player is to play in smallchamber groups and duets are the easiest way toget started. Playing duets with others of similar abilitylevels or even of greater ability will help to stimulatethe growth of your playing. We believe greatly in thisapproach to learning an instrument, but we also knowthat many of you want to just play for fun, so we arehappy to add this collection of Christmas duets to theCompatible Duets series.We certainly hope that it provides you with hours offun filled music making! Building on the successful line of Compatible Duets for Strings and Compatible Trios for Strings, Doris Gazda and Larry Clark have now compiled 50 new duets, perfect for the holidays. All titles can be performed by any combination of string instruments for amazing flexibility.Table of Contents Angels from the Realms of Glory, Angels We Have Heard on High , As Lately We Watched, Auld Lang Syne, Away in a Manger (I) , Away in a Manger (II) , Bring a Torch Jeannette, Isabella, Bright and Joyful Is the Morn, Carol of the Bells, Christmas Greeting, Come, All Ye Shepherds, Coventry Carol, Deck the Halls, El Rorro - The Baby, First Noel, Gesu Bambino - Infant Jesus, Go Tell It on the Mountain, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, Good Christian Men, Rejoice, Good King Wenceslas, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, He Is Born, This Holy Child, Here We Come A-Wassailing, The Holly and the Ivy, I Saw Three Ships, In a Manger He Is Lying, It Came upon a Midnight Clear, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Jingle Bells, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, Joy to the World, Lullaby Carol, March from The Nutcracker Suite, March of the Toys, O Christmas Tree, O Come, All Ye Faithful, O Come Little Children, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, O Holy Night, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Patapan, Rise Up Shepherd, and Follow, Search for an Inn, The - Pedida de la Posada, Silent Night, Toyland, Up on the Housetop, We Three Kings, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, What Child is This?, While Shepherds Watch Their Flock by Night