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Duet Grammar
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:58 pm
by Mark
I see all sorts of ways to describe a duet, but I'm not sure which is the correct way.
What do you think?
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:35 pm
by tubatooter1940
I find "Duelling Fart Horns" to be appropriate.
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:36 pm
by iiipopes
I, for one, am just glad you put tuba first. As it should be.

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:24 am
by Chuck(G)
Well, let's see. A clarinet quartet is not necessarily made up of 4 clarinets (could be, clarinet, violin, bass and piano)--so one might count the principal instrument--"tuba duet".
If one means, for instance, 4 flutes, one would say "quartet for four flutes".
Duet for tuba and euphonium.
---unless you mean the group and not the music. Then it'd be a "euphonium-tuba duo".
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:28 am
by Mark
Chuck(G) wrote:Well, let's see. A clarinet quartet is not necessarily made up of 4 clarinets (could be, clarinet, violin, bass and piano)--so one might count the principal instrument--"tuba duet".
How man woodwinds are in a woodwind quintet?
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:11 am
by LoyalTubist
I think this shows how Internet dependent we have become... We used to just ask friends at school. Now we get in our private computer hideaway at home and ask on the TubeNet Forum. I think the best way to figure this out is look to see how the publishers, composers, and other schools write the term. You might still be wrong but you have a better chance of being right.

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:30 pm
by Chuck(G)
Mark wrote:Chuck(G) wrote:Well, let's see. A clarinet quartet is not necessarily made up of 4 clarinets (could be, clarinet, violin, bass and piano)--so one might count the principal instrument--"tuba duet".
How man woodwinds are in a woodwind quintet?
The standard woodwind quintet contains four--oboe, flute, bassoon and clarinet. The horn is a subsidiary instrument, not the featured one.
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:47 am
by iiipopes
I wondered how long it would take for someone to switch the names around. Oh, but the ampersand is a nice touch.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:32 am
by LoyalTubist
iiipopes wrote:I wondered how long it would take for someone to switch the names around. Oh, but the ampersand is a nice touch.
It also takes less space than
and.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:46 am
by quinterbourne
Chuck(G) wrote:Duet for tuba and euphonium
ed wrote:Duet for Euphonium & Tuba
That's what I'd use. Go for Ed's... higher pitched first.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:28 am
by Chuck(G)
quinterbourne wrote:Chuck(G) wrote:Duet for tuba and euphonium
ed wrote:Duet for Euphonium & Tuba
That's what I'd use. Go for Ed's... higher pitched first.
Duet for tubas--one big and one little. That'll keep folks from asking "What's a euphonium?"
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:27 pm
by quinterbourne
Just call it a tuba duet and refer to the euphonium part as a tenor tuba part.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:37 pm
by windshieldbug
Duet for Big Horn & Little Horn
