{"id":370,"date":"2018-01-13T23:53:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T23:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2018-01-13T23:55:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T23:55:05","slug":"schumann-fast-zu-ernst-ukulele-duet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/schumann-fast-zu-ernst-ukulele-duet\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumann, Fast zu ernst &#8211; Ukulele Duet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-371 \" src=\"http:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/schumann-snippet-300x241.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/schumann-snippet-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/schumann-snippet-150x120.png 150w, https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/schumann-snippet.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>One of my favorite little pieces is Schumann&#8217;s <em>Almost Too Serious<\/em>\u00a0from the piano suite\u00a0<a title=\"wiki: Kinderszenen\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kinderszenen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Scenes From Childhood<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Simple, yet bittersweet.\u00a0 Also used to great effect in the 1996 film,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shine_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Shine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve arranged it as a duet with soprano\/concert ukulele and baritone ukulele.\u00a0 Although I have some vague plans to, I have yet to play it with anyone myself.\u00a0 That said, I&#8217;ve played through both parts, and I think they work pretty well.\u00a0 One or two places where the fingering is a bit cumbersome for the baritone, but honestly better than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>If you play it as a duet, send me a copy, or comment and let me know how it went!<\/p>\n<p>As always, transcription was done in\u00a0the\u00a0open-source WYSIWYG music notation editor\u00a0<a title=\"Fantastic piece of open source software!\" href=\"https:\/\/musescore.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MuseScore.<\/a>\u00a0The MuseScore file is in the .zip, so feel free to edit as you please, particularly when it comes to the soprano fingerings.\u00a0 I was working on a version that made better use of re-entrant tuning, but I&#8217;ll admit I don&#8217;t have a feel for that yet, so it&#8217;s not included.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Schumann-Scenes-from-Childhood-10.-Fast-zu-Ernst-Soprano-Ukulele.pdf\">Schumann &#8211; Scenes from Childhood &#8211; 10. Fast zu Ernst &#8211; Soprano Ukulele<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Schumann-Scenes-from-Childhood-10.-Fast-zu-Ernst-Baritone-Ukulele.pdf\">Schumann &#8211; Scenes from Childhood &#8211; 10. Fast zu Ernst &#8211; Baritone Ukulele<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Schumann-Scenes-from-Childhood-10.-Fast-zu-Ernst-Score-Parts.pdf\">Schumann &#8211; Scenes from Childhood &#8211; 10. Fast zu Ernst &#8211; Score &amp; Parts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Schumann-Scenes-from-Childhood-10.-Fast-zu-Ernst.zip\">.zip with .pdfs &amp; MuseScore file<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite little pieces is Schumann&#8217;s Almost Too Serious\u00a0from the piano suite\u00a0Scenes From Childhood.\u00a0 Simple, yet bittersweet.\u00a0 Also used to great effect in the 1996 film,\u00a0Shine. I&#8217;ve arranged it as a duet with soprano\/concert ukulele and baritone ukulele.\u00a0 Although I have some vague plans to, I have yet to play it with anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[56,75,76,57,55],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-ukulele","category-sheet-music","tag-baritone-ukulele","tag-duet","tag-schumann","tag-sheet-music","tag-ukulele","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdrphd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}