Duets for French Horn - Original Compositions by Archduck
9I'm a French Horn player, so at the end of the day what I enjoy most is writing the parts for my own instrument. Duets for French Horn captures that spirit and gives three fun duets for the French Horns. Ignore the fact that this is ordered differently on the video and Thumbnail, the video's correct over the picture. Which one's your favorite out of the 3?
0:00 Chorale & Dance
1:08 Dance & Dance
2:03 Chorale & Chorale
Instruments:
French Horn
French Horn
Song Descriptions:
Chorale & Dance: This was one of the earliest pieces I wrote. I had recently finished up Drizzle and realized I probably needed to write for my own instrument, so I did it for a composition competition that was roughly 4 years ago. I wanted to get a good band feeling to it and worked to make it sound cool with the help of my band teacher. Afterwards, he suggested the idea of a sister piece for it focusing more on the Dance part of the song. This, of course, immediately led to me writing Heavy Rain instead. I still have the recording of this one I sent into the competition, but it's not very good so you don't get to hear it.
Dance & Dance: Fast forward 2 years, the idea of a second piece was still mingling around in my head, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. Eventually I figured out what kind of piece I wanted to go for and made it. I pretty much just wrote this for the title, and finished up dynamics when I wrote the next piece.
Chorale & Chorale: Fast forward another 2 years to recently, with Dance & Dance I pretty much knew what I wanted to do, and that's this obviously named third part. I realized that I wanted to finish this up and I was motivated to write this specifically. So I got to work making a third piece to finally finish the trilogy of songs and put to rest this epic journey. This one was made to be based off the first one but take it's own direction, and also takes slightly from Drizzle for the fun of remembering the pieces being written so closely together.