pulelehua
Well-known member
What with the friendly reception the Ukulele Etudes are getting, I thought I'd plug my next effort: The Ukulele Duets.
No. They're not finished. They're hardly started. But I am trying to map them out, and thought I'd ask for your help.
It all started when I began the first one. It basically asks the question, "If Mozart had played the ukulele, what might he have written?" And so I wrote this little duet, and called it "Vienna 1781".
Then I came up with another idea for a piece, a jazz waltz, VERY loosely inspired by "Up Jumped Spring" by Freddie Hubbard. And called it "New York 1966".
See where I'm going here?
So, I've come up with a few others:
Weimar 1722 - A Baroque invention
Rio de Janeiro 1959 - A Bossa Nova tune
Sedalia 1899 - A rag
Seville 1870 - A flamenco tune
That makes 6. I want 10. Possibly released in 2 volumes. We'll see how quickly I get on, and how big it all gets. But I'd like it to involve a pretty wide range of styles. The basic premise is to compose for genres in which the ukulele does not traditionally appear - to write original, idiomatic ukulele music in those styles.
So, and this is where I hope it gets fun for you, I was hoping some of you could help me come up with the last 4. The trick is pretty obvious, methinks. A place and year associated with a particular kind of music.
Thanks in advance!
No. They're not finished. They're hardly started. But I am trying to map them out, and thought I'd ask for your help.
It all started when I began the first one. It basically asks the question, "If Mozart had played the ukulele, what might he have written?" And so I wrote this little duet, and called it "Vienna 1781".
Then I came up with another idea for a piece, a jazz waltz, VERY loosely inspired by "Up Jumped Spring" by Freddie Hubbard. And called it "New York 1966".
See where I'm going here?
So, I've come up with a few others:
Weimar 1722 - A Baroque invention
Rio de Janeiro 1959 - A Bossa Nova tune
Sedalia 1899 - A rag
Seville 1870 - A flamenco tune
That makes 6. I want 10. Possibly released in 2 volumes. We'll see how quickly I get on, and how big it all gets. But I'd like it to involve a pretty wide range of styles. The basic premise is to compose for genres in which the ukulele does not traditionally appear - to write original, idiomatic ukulele music in those styles.
So, and this is where I hope it gets fun for you, I was hoping some of you could help me come up with the last 4. The trick is pretty obvious, methinks. A place and year associated with a particular kind of music.
Thanks in advance!