Showing posts with label Duets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duets. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Or, if you prefer, the French tune Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman, first written down and printed in 1761. Mozart wrote variations on it. Combine it with Jane Taylor's famous short poem (first published in Rhymes for the Nursery in 1806) and you have the ubiquitous Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, as sent up by Lewis Carroll - and beloved of people learning instruments ever since.

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Hero Tordenskjold

An easy duet based on a Danish folk song.

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Chinese Melody

Something pentatonic...
This can be played either as a simple solo, or as a duet.

Monday, 5 January 2009

Magic Tango

Happy New Year - if you're reading this in January. This is an elementary duet. Term is just starting, so I'm obviously pretty busy. However, I hope to be posting some more pieces this month, so watch this space...

Friday, 5 September 2008

Another Bach Duet (Grade 1+)

This is obviously easier if you omit the suggested half barre in the first bar (and bars like it).

Read this document on Scribd: minuetduet

Friday, 1 August 2008

Calypso Duet

Another duet, this time a calypso. The top part is easier than the bottom part.
Read this document on Scribd: calypso

Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Bach duets (Grade 1, Grade 1+)

I've recently been arranging pieces from Bach's Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach for guitar duet. Originally written for keyboard, Bach gathered them together into two books in the 1720s and presented them to his wife, Anna Magdalena. They make great easy duets - as well as giving us a feel for domestic musical life in the 18th century.
In the "Aria" I have simplified the rhythm slightly in one or two places.

Read this document on Scribd: aria


Read this document on Scribd: minuet1