Celebrate Christmas with these Unadorned Christmas Carol Duets: 76 traditional Christmas carols in their simplest form, arranged for two trumpets. Included in the book are carols from around the world. There are Christmas carols from America, Czechoslovakia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, and Wales.
The Christmas carols in this book are "unadorned", meaning that there are no fancy treatments of the original carols. There are no embellishments, no modulations, no introductions, and no fancy endings. These Christmas carol arrangements are beautiful in their simplicity.
The overall skill level of Unadorned Christmas Carol Duets is for intermediate trumpet players. The key signatures of the duets include up to two flats and up to four sharps, with the majority of these Christmas carols being in one flat or one sharp. Of the 76 duets, only 9 of them have notes above the staff. There are three written As and twelve written Gs. The rest of the book is in the staff with 32 of the duets having fourth space E as their highest notes.
Unadorned Christmas Carol Duets are ideal for any type of Christmas celebration. You can perform them at churches, at schools, at shopping malls, at airports, Christmas parties, and outdoor concerts. They even work great for sight-reading in your trumpet lessons during the Christmas season. No matter how you use them, the Unadorned Christmas Carol Duets are sure to brighten your holidays!