Christmas Carols for Vocal Duet

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By Donald Sosin

Very simplistic, very familiar songs with the high voice singing 90% of the melody (and ranging up pretty high on most pieces) and the low voice doing the harmonizing. I'd hoped it would be the other way around. The arrangements show little creativity and the music is scored for...

the first verse only. I wasn't able to use it at all.

A bit simplistic in the arrangements, but fine if that is what one seeks

great book- nice arrangements and good selection of songs

As a keyboard player this very traditional selction of Christmas carols offers notation with information for harmony and counter melody parts, thus saving a great deal of time just working from a lead sheet. It would be nice to see similar collections for jazz and standards.

The vocal ranges were quite high on most of the songs so I ended up having to use different songs for our Christmas Cantata. I wasn't impressed with the piano music either - it was too easy so I had to add my own spin to it. However, the piano...

music for O Holy Night and What Child Is This? were great! The piano music for What Child Is This? had a different twist to it and complimented the song really well...too bad we couldn't sing it because it was too high. Couldn't sing O Holy Night either but it made for a great piano solo. Overall...if you'd like to spend $10 on a piano solo for O Holy Night - be my guest. Everything else is crap.