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> Name The Duet !, What Is that duet that everyone can play ?
helly burnet
post May 9 2007, 07:10 PM
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I'm sure you all know it, play it, etc. etc., but has it got a name ?

You know the one I mean, played on old school pianos across the land - in C major - left hand secondo player plays C A F G with the RH playing the tonic broken chord after the bass note has been sounded ? Perhaps it hasn't got a name, but I would be interested to know if it has.
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post May 9 2007, 07:21 PM
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Heart & Soul
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post May 9 2007, 07:53 PM
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Yep, tis called Heart and Soul. Not sure why.

Tis the most annoying piece on the planet though!!
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post May 9 2007, 07:57 PM
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There are actually lyrics to this:

Heart and soul, I fell in love with you,
Heart and soul, the way a fool would do
Madly, because you held me tight
and stole a kiss in the night

Heart and soul, I begged to be adored,
Lost control and tumbled overboard
Gladly, that magic night we kissed
there in the moon mist

Oh but your lips were thrilling, much too thrilling
Never before were mine so strangely willing

But now I see what one embrace can do,
Look at me, it's got me loving you
Madly, that magic kiss you stole
Held all my heart and soul
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post May 9 2007, 09:11 PM
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^Brilliant!!

Will have to remember those next time annoying little people start playing it!!
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post May 9 2007, 10:05 PM
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The words are by Frank Loesser ( of Guys and Dolls fame), the music by Hoagy Carmichael and it was published in 1938. You can buy the music (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post May 9 2007, 11:27 PM
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Wow !!! Incredible lyrics...!!! Singing those along with the tune might just put people off it !!
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post May 9 2007, 11:38 PM
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Reminds me of the film "Big" where Tom Hanks plays it on the giant keyboard (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

In the case of a few persistant pupils... it's a banned piece (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post May 10 2007, 09:52 AM
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yes, it can be really annoying! However why not use it to start off some improvisation, or to build up understanding of key structures by moving the starting note from C to G or F, alongside with learning the relevant scales? I've tried this with a few pupils who have really enjoyed it, and broadened their knowlege at the same time! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post May 10 2007, 12:11 PM
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QUOTE(sbpiano @ May 10 2007, 10:52 AM) *

yes, it can be really annoying! However why not use it to start off some improvisation, or to build up understanding of key structures by moving the starting note from C to G or F, alongside with learning the relevant scales? I've tried this with a few pupils who have really enjoyed it, and broadened their knowlege at the same time! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I once had to write out "Chopsticks" during my lunch hour and then transpose it into another key (don't recall which, but it was a nasty one) as a punishment for playing it whilst the teacher was trying to tell us something important (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

I probably learnt more about writing music in that one detention than I did in a year's worth of school music lessons.
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post May 10 2007, 12:40 PM
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QUOTE(helly burnet @ May 10 2007, 12:27 AM) *

Wow !!! Incredible lyrics...!!! Singing those along with the tune might just put people off it !!


I think they're gorgeous lyrics - deeply romantic and straight from another era. Come on, you can't put down Frank Loesser!

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post May 10 2007, 09:05 PM
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They play/sing it in Stuart Little.
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post May 10 2007, 10:32 PM
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I'm astonished to hear it has a composer, especially Hoagy as it's not at all like most of his stuff. I always thought it was a generic "vamp" that you could bang out in the background to a lot of things. Are you sure he didn't take a generic tune and twiddle it about a bit, while Loesser put lyrics to it in the same way?
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post May 11 2007, 05:59 AM
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The version I know is a medley of 'Heart and Soul' and 'The Way You Look Tonight'.
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post May 11 2007, 07:14 AM
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QUOTE(sbpiano @ May 10 2007, 10:52 AM) *

yes, it can be really annoying! However why not use it to start off some improvisation


I had great fun with that the other day. We use it as a good way of introducing variations by asking students to take the bass line as the theme and come up with variations of it. I had to do an improvisation of a set of variations on it as a demo, and it was actually pretty fun!!

The temptation to put the top part in on flute while they were playing kept getting too great though!!
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