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Melody for baritone ukulele is a short piece that explores variations on a tune uttered in the first few bars and is without any extra-musical significance beyond that it was inspired by hearing Donald's new ventures on the instrument. The plan of the piece was to initially keep the music melodically and harmonically simple but to gradually increase the rhythmic complexity and introduce more unusual chromatic elements towards cadence points. In the later half, the music modulates its key as it heads towards a summation of sorts, only to drift off into tangentially related material and an inconclusive conclusion. There is a restless quality to Melody that wasn't designed but evolved out of the manipulation of rhythm and ideally, should be listened to as one long tune rather than as a series of fragments.—Geoffrey Cox

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from Cross​/​Over, released October 31, 2021
Donald Bousted, baritone ukulele.
Written by Geoffrey Cox.

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Donald Bousted benefitted from some excellent teaching, studying the guitar with Thomas Hartmann, the lute with Christopher Wilson and early music with Peter Holman and Ian Gammie. Later, he took further guitar lessons with Antonio Albanes and Oliver Hunt privately. In 2017, he discovered the classical ukulele and it seemed to bring many of his interests together. Sadly Donald passed in 2021. ... more

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