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A sub-trope of [[Let's Duet]]. See also [[Love At First Note]].

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== [[Advertising]] ==

* A dating website's UK ad campaign features some [[Tastes Like Diabetes|rather cloying]] examples of this crossed with [[Meet Cute]].

 

 

* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'' Quatre and Trowa play a duet shortly after meeting, which cements the friendship they'll have for the rest of the series (and drives the shippers nuts).

** The music of the duet is titled on the soundtrack as 'Sparkling Harmony,' under the subtitle 'Affection.' It's not hard to read between the lines.

* At least two instances in ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]''—Doremi has one with Hazuki (Doremi on piano and Hazuki on violin) and another with her little sister Pop (both playing piano).

* Hibiki and Kanade play piano together to improve their teamwork early in ''[[Suite Pretty Cure]]''.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'' has the title characters do this quite often. Aubrey plays violin; Maturin plays cello. And, uh, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]?:

{{quote|[H]e was particularly attentive in laying out the sheets, pouring Stephen another glass of wine, and, when they began, in so playing that his violin helped the 'cello, yielding to it in those minute ways perceptive to those who are deep in their music if to few others.[... T]hey carried straight on without a pause, separating, joining, answering one another, with never a hesitation nor a false note until the full satisfaction of the end.}}

* In [[Hermann Hesse]]'s ''[[The Glass Bead Game]]'', when the protagonist Josef Knecht is still a young boy, the Music Master himself comes to examine if he's eligible to be educated in the elite schools. He does it by making the young Josef play music together with him. Thereafter they practically make a baroque-style version of what jazz musicians usually call "jam session", using a popular song as the basic theme. After this, the Music Master explicitly tells to Josef that making music together is the easiest way to create a friendship.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* This was the ''only'' way Ted and Stephanie could communicate for a while in ''[[Scrubs]]'', until Ted grew a pair.

* In ''[[Glee]]'' this is how Jesse seduces Rachel when they first meet. {{spoiler|And then again when Jesse returns to McKinley.}}

** ''[[Glee]]'' loves this trope, especially with Rachel. Two other examples include Mercedes and Rachel resolving a feud while singing [[Rent|"Take Me or Leave Me"]], and Blaine solidifying his foray into bisexuality with Rachel with "Don't You Want Me."

* ''[[Follies]]'': Although, it was more of an introduction to the audience, since the couple knew each other way back when, but it still counts.

* In ''[[Evita]]'', Eva and Peron do this.

* 'You and I' from ''[[Chess (theatre)|Chess]]'' fits this trope

* ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' Hoo Boy. Just about every song.