Duet Grammar

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:58 pm

I see all sorts of ways to describe a duet, but I'm not sure which is the correct way.

What do you think?

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:35 pm

I find "Duelling Fart Horns" to be appropriate.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:36 pm

I, for one, am just glad you put tuba first. As it should be.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:24 am

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".

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:28 am

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?

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:11 am

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.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:30 pm

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.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:47 am

I wondered how long it would take for someone to switch the names around. Oh, but the ampersand is a nice touch.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:32 am

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.

quinterbourne · Post by **quinterbourne** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:46 am

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.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:28 am

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?"

quinterbourne · Post by **quinterbourne** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:27 pm

Just call it a tuba duet and refer to the euphonium part as a tenor tuba part.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:37 pm

Duet for Big Horn & Little Horn

Duet Grammar

Which is the grammatically correct way of describing a duet between a tuba and euphonium

Duet Grammar