The Five Note Duet sounds so familiar that I had to dig through my stash of music. Has someone else composed it already? Or does it sound like a piece I’ve written? About four years ago I composed a homage to a guitar composer. There are similarities but the homage and the new ukulele duet are two very different instrumental solos. Let’s revisit my Homage to Carcassi, a solo piece I wrote for low G ukulele a few years back.
Revisiting my Homage to Carcassi
I can hardly believe that nearly four years ago I wrote a piece for low G ukulele paying tribute to the greatest classical guitar composers that I love. I posted a blog entitled Homage to Carcassi and Carulli but I’ve never recorded it.
At the same time, I also arranged the homage for my piano students in Zoom.
I must have shared the three-page PDF with my ukulele class at the time (Spring 2021). However, no one, to my knowledge, had played it.
The Homage makes use of pedal tones, triplets, and scale passages.
Comparing the Homage with the Five Note Duet
Now doesn’t the beginning of Homage to Carcassi look like the beginning of the Five Note Dance? I wrote the duet for high G ukulele. The Homage needs the low G string to execute the G, A, and Bb notes below middle C.
Both pieces are in the key of F major though The Five Note Dance and Take Five on Five only use five notes. Only the melody is fingerpicked in the duet. The homage is a chord melody piece, including both melody and harmony.
Daily Music Writing Project completed
I have completed 31 consecutive days of writing music in 24 days. There is a reason for an early completion. Or batch processing, I call it.
My next project is to get my music ready for publication and to publish my music. That will be the month of February. Fortuntely, I will get a head start before the month of January is over. I will reserve March for recording the music I’ve written.
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