Christmas duets for Soprano/Alto
  • venicreator333music
    Posts: 3
    I am an organist who can sing mezzo/alto, and my cantor is a soprano. I am looking for ideas for Christmas duets (English or Latin). Many thanks!
  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,404
    From Rossini's Canticum Novum (accompanied duets for 2-voices)
    Adeste Fideles // Jesu, Redemptor Omnium // Parvulus Filius // Laetentur Caeli // Tui Sunt Caeli

    You could also look at The Oxford Book of Flexible Carols
    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-book-of-flexible-carols-9780193364622?cc=us&lang=en&;
  • Don9of11Don9of11
    Posts: 803
    I have several pieces for SA that we sang in St. Mary's Choir during the 80s. These are all in English and likely are not in print anymore. Most of these were sung as part of our Christmas program before Mass (Ordinary Form). If you are interested send me a PM and I can send you copies. Here is a list:

    Christ Was Born on Christmas Day SA - 1968
    Christmas Dawn SSA - 1928
    Come All Ye Faithful SA - 1952
    Gloria in Excelsis Deo SSA - 1959
    O Babe Divine SA - 1956
    O Light of the World SSA - 1934
    Sleeping the Christ Child Lay SA - 1928
    With Glory Lit the Midnight Air Revealed SAB - 1906

    Also an Easter hymn for SAA - 1891
    Thanked by 2Egrimm84 canadash
  • Egrimm84
    Posts: 9
    I would love copies of these! We're planning our Christmas concert...
  • CGM
    Posts: 780
    There's an absolutely gorgeous "Ave Maria" duet for soprano and alto by Saint-Saëns that I think you could maybe pass off as a Christmas piece — after all, "Ave Maria" is the Offertory for Advent IV, and Advent IV is riiiiight before Christmas... and you couldn't have Christmas without Mary, and Christmas is one of the mysteries of the Rosary, which requires a surfeit of "Ave Maria"s...
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  • Xopheros
    Posts: 71
    If it is not too presumptuous to suggest one's own settings, here are two suggestions:



    In our last Christmas concertos, we always included this two part Gloria, which is set in double counterpoint and thus works with arbitrary voice combinatons. It is based on a translation of the Gloria approved by the Vatican for liturgical use in 1990, but for a concert this is of no relevance, I guess. Usually the auditorium demands it again as an encore:

  • davido
    Posts: 1,150
    Ave Maria duet in A major, Camille Saint-Saens

    Paris Angelicus, Cesar Frank (see free gig music . Com for duet score)

    You will find these on a lot of Christmas albums
  • francis
    Posts: 11,175
    Original arrangement of bring a torch

    See and hear the score

    http://myopus.com/bringATorch.html
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,486
    Donald Swann - Jesu parvule.
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