Product Description
Bring some peace to your Christmas program with this sublime
In the Bleak Midwinter trumpet duet arrangement.
This arrangement finds its original roots in Eddie Lewis
Unadorned Trumpet Carol arrangement published a few years earlier. This is one
of the most popular arrangements from that series (and digital album). One of
the listeners on YouTube commented that it was "LIKE I ALWAYS PICTURED THIS
SONG, SIMPLE AND BEAUTIFUL"
When it was time to write a more "adorned" version of this
Christmas carol, Eddie wanted to keep most of that simplicity and beauty. For
that reason, this arrangement is far more simplistic than Eddies other trumpet
duet arrangements in this series and the Trumpet Hymn Duets series.
Embellishments were kept to a minimum throughout the
arrangement. There is a bit of an elaboration in the last verse, but Eddie
strove to prevent that elaboration from deterring from the peaceful nature of
the original Christmas carol.
Trumpet Player Skill Level
The highest note in this trumpet duet arrangement of In the
Bleak Midwinter is top line F sharp. This puts it squarely in our Trumpet Player
skill level. The Trumpet Player skill level is the firs of two intermediate
skill levels and most high school trumpet players should have no difficulties
learning any music from this level.
Practice Recommendations
This trumpet duet arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter is
almost "easy" and on the surface it seems as if there is nothing to recommend
for practicing. But the truth is that its almost always the easiest music that
becomes difficult to perform well.
With that said, what does someone focus on when the skill
level makes the composition technically easy, but more of a musical challenge?
The one thing that stands out most is phrasing. Without
poetic phrasing, music will sound like "just notes". Learn to phrase well and
use that phrasing on this Christmas carol trumpet duet.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.