Got any suggestions for good songs for two people to sing with each other (in a casual, non-performance context)?<\/p>\n
Mary Anne and I like singing together. Last week, we were trying to come up with songs in which two people alternate parts, with some overlap. We're especially interested in showtunes of that sort.<\/p>\n
There's “Confrontation<\/a>” from Les Mis<\/cite>, except I don't know it well enough to sing it (even with a lyric sheet) and I'm not all that fond of it. (Though Mary Anne likes it a lot.) There's “I Know Him So Well<\/a>” from Chess<\/cite>; unfortunately, Mary Anne knows the London studio recording, while these days I mostly know the American Broadway cast recording. (It's been many years since I've sat down and listened to the London recording all the way through; I really ought to do that again. We got rather tangled up when we tried to sing “You Want to Lose Your Only Friend” and I didn't realize, until M pointed it out halfway through, that we were singing different versions.)<\/p>\n There are plenty of songs that have two voices, but most of them don't have anywhere close to equal distribution of the voices. I love “I See the Light<\/a>” from Tangled<\/cite>, but Rapunzel sings the entire first half of the song solo (and I think M doesn't like that song as much as I do). I love “Another Suitcase in Another Hall<\/a>,” from Evita<\/cite>, but (ignoring the extended introduction sung by Eva), most of the song is solo; Che's gorgeous part is only in the choruses. And M doesn't know that show anyway. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” has some of the same kind of thing going on with the “turn around” bits; that's fun too, but I'd prefer something with more for the second voice to do.<\/p>\n It's certainly possible to do non-duet songs as duets. For example, the canonical version of “Good King Wenceslas<\/a>” in my head is the one described in The Dark Is Rising<\/cite>, so M and I split the verses that way sometimes. And we should probably learn the Glee<\/cite> arrangement of “Don't Stop Believin'<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Oh, and of course there's always rounds; we like those. But except for the ones I know really well, I do better on rounds when there's another voice (ideally a strong one) singing the same part as me.<\/p>\n Anyway, we're especially interested in songs that are written as a dialogue or other back-and-forth, with some bits solo and some bits with the same lyrics in unison (or harmony) and some bits with different lyrics overlapping.<\/p>\n We looked at a couple of online lists of “greatest duets,” but most of them were songs I didn't know (a lot of them were songs I had never even heard of), and often in genres I don't know much about. I'd be more interested in songs from musicals or folksongs than, say, rock or blues.<\/p>\n Any suggestions?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Got any suggestions for good songs for two people to sing with each other (in a casual, non-performance context)? Mary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}