Trumpet Ensemble Music

Instrumentation- Trumpet Descant
Composer- arr.Chidester
Length- 1:54 and :54
Difficulty- M+
Range – F first space to high C (Concert pitches)
Endurance- 1+
Finger technique- 2
Counting ability- 2
Ensemble difficulty- 2

Another request!

After return home from a Christmas party last night, I noticed a request on one of the trumpet bulletin boards asking for descants for “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” and “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”. Neither of these numbers is readily available so I arranged the requested descants this morning and after sending them to the original requester (living in Scotland) I checked my Email and found that a recent friend (living in Haiti) had recommended that the requester contact me. Is this what’s call International Good Will?

I love the Internet!

There are two descants for each of the hymns. In measure 32-33-34 of “Love Divine” the part goes a little high so I wrote a lower part. Both parts are on the recording so you could split the two decants between two players and play the high as well as the lower parts to make it sound like a duet. This is also true in measures 21-22-23.

All parts are written in Concert pitch.

Listen to sample- Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Free score- Love Divine, All Loves Excelling Descant

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