Unadorned Hymn Duets

Unadorned Hymn Duets

Unadorned Hymn Duets is 133 traditional church hymns arranged for trumpet duet. These are very simple duets not to be confused with our popular Trumpet Hymn Duets book. Trumpet Hymn Duets is 21 hymns arranged with multiple verses and modulations and other clever compositional techniques. In contrast, Unadorned Hymn Duets is a book of single verse arrangement that have no clever compositional techniques.

Unadorned Hymn Duet Store Links

You can purchase the Unadorned Hymn Duets book as a physical book or as a PDF download. The following links will take you to the online stores where it is for sale.

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Unadorned Hymn Duets Trumpet Duet Book

Second Parts

The most important aspect of the Unadorned Hymn Duets book is the second parts. The first parts are directly from the hymnal. You can get those melodies for free at dozens of different websites online. What you can’t get anywhere online are my second trumpet parts.

These second parts have harmonies that stay true to the original chords of the hymn, but sound far, far better than just playing the alto part or the tenor part. The second parts are awkward sometimes. That awkwardness is always for a reason and the end result is a wonderful second part that beautifully compliments the melody of the original hymn.

List of Hymns

There are 133 hymns in the Unadorned Hymn Duets book. Here is the complete list of those hymns:

  • Abide with Me
  • Abiding and Confiding
  • Abiding in Jesus
  • Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed
  • All Creatures of Our God and King
  • All Glory Laud and Honor
  • All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
  • All I Need
  • All Praise to Thee My God This Night
  • Along the Silent Path
  • And Are We Yet Alive
  • And Can It Be That I Should Gain
  • Are You Washed in the Blood
  • As With Gladness Men of Old
  • At Calvary
  • At the Cross
  • Blessed Assurance
  • Blessed Be The Name of the Lord
  • Blessed Redeemer
  • Blessing and Honor
  • Boundless Salvation
  • Breathe on Me Breath of God
  • Christ Arose
  • Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
  • Come Holy Ghost Our Hearts Inspire
  • Come My Soul Thy Suit Prepare
  • Come Thou Almighty King
  • Come Thou Redeemer of the Earth
  • Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy
  • Commit Whatever Grieves Thee
  • Crown Him with Many Crowns
  • Dare to Be a Daniel
  • Day by Day the Manna Fell
  • The Day of Resurrection
  • Down at the Cross
  • Fairest Lord Jesus
  • Fill Thou My Life O Lord My God
  • God Loved the World
  • God of Grace and God of Glory
  • God Will Take Care of You
  • God Our Father We Adore Thee
  • Grace Greater than Our Sin
  • Great is Thy Faithfulness
  • He Leadeth Me
  • His Eye is on the Sparrow
  • Holy Bible Book Divine
  • Holy God We Praise Your Name
  • Holy Holy Holy
  • I Am a Child of the King
  • I Am Not Skilled to Understand
  • I Am Thine O Lord
  • I Know that My Savior Lives
  • I Love Thee
  • I Love to Tell the Story
  • I Sing the Mighty Power of God
  • I Stand Amazed in the Presence
  • I Surrender All
  • If You Will Only Let God Guide You
  • I’m Healed
  • In the Sweet By and By
  • It Is Well With my Soul
  • Jesus I Come
  • Jesus! Name of Wondrous Love!
  • Jesus Paid It All
  • Jesus Thy Blood and Righteousness
  • Just As I Am
  • Keep Me
  • Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
  • Let Us Break Bread Together
  • Lift Up Your Heads You Mighty Gates
  • The Lily of the Valley
  • Living for Jesus
  • Lord I Want to Be a Christian
  • Lord Speak to Me That I May Speak
  • Love Lifted Me
  • A Mighty Fortress is Our God
  • More Holiness Give Me
  • My Jesus I Love Thee
  • Near the Cross
  • Nearer My God to Thee
  • Nothing but the Blood
  • Now In a Song of Grateful Praise
  • O Boundless Salvation
  • O God Our Help in Ages Past
  • O How I Love Jesus
  • O Mighty God
  • O Perfect Love
  • O Sacred Head Now Wounded
  • O the Deep Deep Love of Jesus
  • O Trinity of Blessed Light
  • O Word of God Incarnate
  • Obedience, Of the Father’s Love Begotten
  • The Old Rugged Cross
  • On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand
  • Open My Eyes that I May See
  • Peace Be Still
  • Peace Perfect Peace
  • Penitence
  • Praise Him! Praise Him!
  • Praise to the Lord the Almighty
  • Rock of Ages
  • Safe in the Arms of Jesus
  • Since Jesus Came into My Heart
  • Sing to the Lord of Harvest
  • The Solid Rock
  • Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus
  • The Strife is O’er the Battle Done
  • Take My Life and Let it Be
  • Tell Me the Old Old Story
  • There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood
  • There Is Joy in the Lord
  • There Is Power in the Blood
  • There Will be Showers of Blessings
  • Thine Is the Glory
  • This Is My Father’s World
  • Thy Word I Have Hid in My Heart
  • ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
  • ‘Tis the Blessed Hour of Prayer
  • To God be the Glory
  • Trust and Obey
  • Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus
  • The Voice of Thanksgiving
  • We’re Marching to Zion
  • Were You There
  • We’ve a Story to Tell the Nations
  • What a Friend We Have in Jesus
  • What a Wonderful Savior
  • When I Can Read My Title Clear
  • When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
  • When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder
  • Wonderful Words of Life
  • You Servants of God Your Master Proclaim

Unadorned Hymn Duets Cover Art

My wife, Pearl, does all of our book covers. The concept for Unadorned Hymn Duets comes from my memories of living in El Paso. El Paso is in the Chihuahuan Desert. Houses and walls are often built from local materials. Where here in Houston we have wood fences, in El Paso almost every house has brick walls around their yards.

Although I have never actually seen a cross made of stone while living in El Paso, I thought that would be a beautiful concept for a cover. And Pearl did a wonderful job putting that concept into action.

But there is more to the story about the cover art than just the concept…

My Illness

I recently went into the hospital for two emergency room visits in the space of six weeks. Apparently, I had been gradually getting sick for many years. In the last few weeks of working on Unadorned Trumpet Hymns, I was having some really bad nights.

When things got really bad, I would pull up the image Pearl sent me for the cover and sit at my desk, staring at it and praying. Sometimes I would start off praying, but then trail off into a painfilled numbness.

In those final weeks of my illness, my productivity was greatly reduced. Unadorned Hymn Duets was the only project for which I seemed to be able to get anything done. This book will always remind me of how sick I became and how wonderful it fills to be well again. Praise God!