Trumpet Christmas Carol Duets

Hello trumpet players!

Thank you for visiting Eddie Lewis’ website and checking out our Trumpet Christmas Carol Duets page. You can look at this project and its future book as a sequel to Eddie’s Trumpet Hymn Duets book, which is currently, by far, our most popular book. He is following the same principles that guided him on the Trumpet Hymn Duets book to create these Trumpet Christmas Carol Duets!

What are those principles?

There were two guiding principles that lead to the Trumpet Hymn Duets. The first was that Eddie wanted to remain true to the harmonies of the original hymns. In fact, the very first thing he does when he writes one of these arrangements is to do a traditional harmonic analysis of the hymns (and carols). He does it in the traditional music theory notation, just like you would learn to do at music school.

Those are the harmonies Eddie uses for these arrangements. He does not reharmonize the hymns or the carols. Not for this series. Eddie is quite capable of more complex harmonic applications, but he wanted to write these duets in a way that is 100% appropriate for traditional church services.

The other guiding principle in writing these arrangements is honoring the original mood (and style) of the hymns and carols. The most adventurous Eddie get’s in these arrangements is to add some fanfare sections or subtle counterpoint. There are no jazz treatments, no odd meter adaptations, no striking modern compositional techniques.

Once again, this is because he wants the arrangements to be appropriate for traditional church services.