alto tenor duets

bobk · Jul 1, 2007

My daughter Hannah & I are now possessed of an alto and a tenor. We're keen to play duets. Does anyone have any recommendations of alto/tenor duet books suitable for relative beginners which are more pop/jazz than classically oriented? For some examples we like ?Fly me to the moon?, ?All my lovin? ?, ?I get a kick out of you? and ?Smoke on the water? (I kid you not).

Cheers,

Bob

Linky Lee · Jul 1, 2007

I'd love to be possessed by my saxophones 😛

have a listen to 'chasing the bird' maybe you could come up with your own duet arrangements of some easier tunes, based on that kind of idea.

Pjonah · Jul 2, 2007

Try this one

http://www.music-scores.com/

I managed to get some unusual combinations; my son plays clarinet and I managed to get some duets for Clarinet and Baritone sax!

They have quite a wierd mix of mainly classical stuff.

Failing that get some sheet music of the pieces you like and some notation software and have a go at arranging some yourself, you'll be surprised at how good it'll sound!

Simon

darrell · Jul 2, 2007

Here's a site for some music for duets or quartets:

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_artbrowseresults.html?
cart=33923493481317383&style=artist&artist=Frank+Reinshagen

fecklesseric · Jul 2, 2007

Spartan Press ( http://www.spartanpress.co.uk/ ) does some flexible ensemble pieces that are quite good for beginners. They are printed for 2-4 instruments, any mixture of Bb or Eb.

I seem to recall that they have blues collections, christmas collections, etc. All graded according to difficulty. So you might get what you're looking for there.

justin_chune · Jul 13, 2007

Hi Bob. I've just done a search of my archive (attic) You could take a look at a couple of books by James Rae. "Easy Jazzy Duets" and "Jazzy Duets" This one is a little more difficult. They can be played AA or TT or by using the seperate part for tenor AT. There are no CDs with these. "Play it Cool" comes with a CD. This one is not a duet book, but it does come with parts for both saxes. The tunes are great fun. So play em together if you wish. A real band was used to record the backing tracks. The books are published by Universal Edition. Have fun and keep up the good work.