Crown Him with Many Crowns Trumpet Hymn Duet

Crown Him with Many Crowns

Trumpet Hymn Duet

Tune: Diademata

by Matthew Bridges, Godfrey Thring, George J. Elvey

Arr Eddie Lewis

MTR 0243 4159

Important Note: This pdf includes two versions of the arrangement. The first one is in D concert (four sharps for trumpet), modulating to E concert (six sharps for trumpet). The second version is transposed up a half step to make it easier. It begins in E flat concert (one flat for trumpet) and F concert (one sharp for trumpet).


The next trumpet duet in our Trumpet Hymn Duet series is Crown Him with Many Crowns. I wrote this duet to celebrate Easter in 2021. The arrangement begins with a rhythmic fanfare. Then the first verse is plainly stated. Then with a brief statement of the opening fanfare it modulates up a step for the fanfare version of the second verse. It ends as most of my Trumpet Hymn Duets do, with an “amen” based on the thematic content of the hymn.

Trumpet Hymn Duets

I had taken a short break from writing these Trumpet Hymn Duets simply because I’ve been spending that time working on the Christmas duets instead. The Christmas duets are a logical extension of the Trumpet Hymn Duet series because they follow the same model. So, after I published the first set of 21 Trumpet Hymn Duets, I went about a year without writing anymore of them.

Crown Him with Many Crowns is the second Trumpet Hymn Duet that I’ve written since I took that short break. To be clear, that means that it is NOT in the first Trumpet Hymn Duets book.

Skill Level

The skill level for Crown Him with Many Crowns trumpet hymn duet is the Trumpet Apprentice skill level. This is the fourth of seven levels in our system, and the second of two intermediate levels.

As stated in the important note above, there are two different versions of the duet in this pdf. The first is in a difficult key and the second is in an easier key. The difficult key puts this piece at the very top of the Trumpet Apprentice skill level and most high school trumpet players would NOT be able to sight read it.

The easier version, on the other hand, should be sight readable for most good high school trumpet students.

Practice Recommendations

We recommend learning the easier version of the arrangement first. Then, in preparation for the more difficult keys, the students are encouraged to use my scale system. The first part of the system is to use my Major Scale Expansion Studies to learn the key. Then, when they have done each exercise ten times, they should practice the Tonalization Studies for those keys at least ten times.