The duos for two violins which I have written to celebrate the birthday of David Takeno are the first part of what I hope will ultimately become a book of duos. These little pieces (there are eight in this first set) are each designed as illustrations of compositional procedures which I discuss in a work-in-progress: a handbook for composers. First there is a melody to be performed more or less in unison and then a more elaborate version of it: 'coloured' as it were. All the pieces that follow d...

• I Melody
• II "coloured"
• III Mosso Anapest
• IV Allegretto
• V Largamente
• VI Più mosso
• VII Largamente
• VIII On hearing of the death of an old violinist (Manny)
• IX Crotchet = 168
• X
• XI Crotchet = 152
• XII Quaver = 92
• XIII Quaver = 108
• XIV Lento
• XV Dotted crotchet = 84 -