Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy

This 1970's collaboration between David Bowie and Bing Crosby floored me when I first saw it many years ago, and this year [2023] I thought of doing it as an instrumental duet in church. I found a vocal transcription online and adapted it. Using Lilypond, of course. (Much better printed results than the transcription I started with, too.)

The printable music: 
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book.pdf.gz Book-form. 
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duet.pdf.gz Trumpets in B♭ 
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duo.pdf.gz Trumpet in B♭, Baritone 
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score.pdf.gz Score, with Lyrics 
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scorenoly.pdf.gz Score, no Lyrics

These are standard printable PDF files, compressed with Gnu's gzip utility. Macintosh, Windows, and Linux systems all know how to deal with these.

The 2-sheet 8-page book should be printed double-sided on 11×17" (tabloid) paper, short-side binding. Then folded together. (The Coherent PDF utility is used to do the necessary page arrangement.) The no-lyrics score has better spacing for the piano player. (Easier to read.)

The Lilypond sources: 
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Makefile Makes all of the above. 
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crosbow.covr PDF of the book's cover photo. 
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duet.ly Two B♭ trumpets. 
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duo.ly Trumpet in B♭, Baritone. 
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notes.ly All notes and lyrics. 
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score.ly Score. 
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scorenoly.ly Score, with no lyrics for better spacing. 
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title.ly The title, shared so as to avoid mistakes.

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