Christmas Carols

I love Christmas Carols. I really do. They are a mix of happy and beautiful and always bring back good memories. However, particularly as a soprano...Christmas Carols are far from musically fulfilling. I get tired of singing the melody. It's ok to sing through a song once...but when we start going over notes...I get so bored. I mean really...we sing the same stuff every year, and yet people still have issues. I know I'm being obnoxious, but that is just the way I'm feeling about these Christmas Carols.

So...last night I started sightreading the alto part. And it was fun. I've always loved singing harmony because it's so much more interesting than the melody. Having sung both alto and soprano in my life, I would say that the main difference between the two is that notes are much harder to sing as an alto (since it's not the melody), but as a soprano, tone is so much more important because you're often more exposed, floating somewhere above all of the other parts. And, for me, alto notes are much easier to sing with a good tone because they lie in the comfortable range of my voice.

Anyway, last night made me wish that I sang alto again. Especially on Christmas Carols...