10 Jazz Swing Christmas Carols is a collection of ten of your favourite Christmas carols arranged as duets in a jazz style for two Clarinets. If you are looking for a fun and fresh take on Christmas music, then you are in the right place. Audiences will love these original and imaginative versions of Christmas favorites. Students and players at an intermediate level and above will enjoy the challenge of playing these simple tunes in a more advanced version.
Overall there is around 30 minutes of music spread over 27 pages. 10 Jazz Swing Christmas Carols are perfect for seasonal celebrations and concert performances, both formal and informal. These carols are also available for many other instrumental combinations elsewhere on Sheet Music Plus. Click on the YouTube link above to listen to sample performances of these arrangements.

10 Jazz Swing Christmas Carols are in alphabetical order and are as follows

Away in a MangerDing Dong Merrily on HighGod Rest ye Merry GentlemenGood King WenceslasJingle BellsJoy to the WorldO Christmas Tree (OTannenbaum)Silent NightWe Three KingsWe Wish You a Merry Christmas
10 Jazz Swing Christmas Carols are arranged in keys and ranges best suited to the instruments. Rhythms are syncopated, as one would expect in jazz swing, and there is plenty of articulation detail to help deliver an authentic style.

Ice Cream, you scream, inspired by the famous renditions of Luis Armstrong, The Charleston and Whispering, will get your audience dancing, guaranteed!
Have fun!

This is a book of popular pieces arranged for duet; it comprises both volumes from the '15 Duets for Fun' series, plus the '21 Christmas Duets for Fun' as well, making a total of 51 duets in this set. The difficulty levels range from early-intermediate to advanced, and should provide something for everyone to enjoy. The pieces have been arranged so that both parts are interesting throughout - they often interweave and take on many roles within the music. A duet score is provided for each piece, and the repertoire covers wedding music, slow melodies, traditional Welsh melodies, baroque classics, famous symphonic melodies, piano works, Christmas classics and other popular pieces. This is the full list: 1. Jingle Bells v1 2. Jingle Bells v2 3. Ding Dong Merrily On High v1 4. Ding Dong Merrily On High v2 5. Ding Dong Merrily On High v3 6. Joy To The World v1 7. Joy To The World v2 8. Joy To The World v3 9. Deck The Halls v1 10. Deck The Halls v2 11. Deck The Halls v3 12. O Christmas Tree v1 13. O Christmas Tree v2 14. Silent Night v1 15. Silent Night v2 16. Silent Night v3 17. O Little Town Of Bethlehem v1 18. O Little Town Of Bethlehem v2 19. O Little Town Of Bethlehem v3 20. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen v1 21. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen v2 22. All Through The Night (Welsh trad.) 23. Amazing Grace (Newton) 24. American Patrol (Meacham) 25. David of the White Rock (Welsh trad.) 26. Fanfare from ?Water Music? (Handel) 27. Happy Birthday 28. Largo from ?Xerxes? (Handel) 29. Myfanwy (Welsh trad.) 30. Pizzicati from ?Sylvia? (Delibes) 31. Prelude in C (Bach) 32. La Réjouissance from ?Music for the Royal Fireworks? (Handel) 33. Rondo from ?Abdelazer? (Purcell) 34. Scherzo from Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven) 35. Suo Gan (Welsh trad.) 36. Concerto for Mandolin and Strings (Ugolino) 37. The Entertainer (Scott Joplin) 38. Highlights from Rhapsody In Blue (Gershwin) 39. The Blue Danube Waltz (Johann Strauss II) 40. Six Christmas Pieces, No.5 (Mendelssohn) 41. Für Elise (Beethoven) 42. In The Hall Of The Mountain King (Grieg) 43. Trumpet Voluntary (Jeremiah Clarke) 44. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik No.1 (Mozart) 45. The Londonderry Air / Danny Boy (trad.) 46. Symphony No.5, Mvt.1 (Beethoven) 47. Rondo Alla Turca (Mozart) 48. ?Autumn? from ?The Four Seasons? (Vivaldi) 49. ?Ode to Joy? from Symphony No.9 (Beethoven) 50. March of the Toy Soldiers from ?The Nutcracker? (Tchaikovsky) 51. Prelude from ?Te Deum? (Charpentier)

24 all original Clarinet duets for intermediate to advanced players by Keri Degg. Containing a multitude of styles from Swing, Celtic, contemporary, classical, Rock and more, these are a must have for the intermediate to advanced player wanting to improve their playing.

As the duets are all original, no 'cheating' can take place by already knowing the melodies so good tactical mathematical skills must be employed. Some of the duets zone in on intonation, others on rhythmic precision, or expression. There are a number of light hearted duets in the collection which provide welcome relief amidst exam study work (after all, music should be fun too!).

The duets stick mainly to the keys and note ranges for the given grades but there are occasional exceptions (in our opinion this is good preparation for what is to come ahead) and generally the lower Clarinet part (Clarinet 2) is a little easier in standard and has more notes in the lower range than the other (although often the melody line will switch from player to player to share the tune and encourage sympathetic listening skills).

Apologies for the (rather poor) audio file; it's a digital interpretation of 'The Chase' - a comedy duet from the collection. They sound amazing on real instruments! There are 23 more duets too remember.

Examples of the included duets include; 'Desert Scape' (with ethereal timbral trills for a shimmering effect), 'The Chase'.... a comedy romp (imagine a cartoon chase; Tom and Jerry etc!), 'Seventh Heaven' a swing jaunt, 'I baroqued it' (a baroque-inspired fast paced duet), plus Celtic flavoured duets and more....

This is the sequel collection to the popular '40 Graded Clarinet Duets' (Grades 1-5) by Keri Degg. Also available in Saxophone, and Flute editions.