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

 

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* 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.

* ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'' is essentially ''all about this''.

* Pictured above, Kahoko Hino and Len Tsukimori from ''[[Kiniro no Corda]]'', playing their first duet together (yes, there is ''more'' after that).

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

 

== Film ==

* In ''[[Corpse Bride]]'', after Victor offends the eponymous bride, they make up by playing a piano duet together.

* Nearly literal version in ''[[Walk Hard]]'' - the double-entendre duet of "Let's Duet."

* In ''[[The Holiday]]'' Iris and Miles bond over composing "Arthur's theme" on a piano together.

* Troy and Gabriella of ''[[High School Musical]]'' become acquainted by singing karaoke in front of a crowd of people. Later, they bond some more when they practice to become the leads in the school play.

* In ''[[Duets]]'', Liv finally bonds with her up until then [[Jerkass]] estranged father when he calls her up on stage during a karaoke competition so that they can sing a duet of her deceased mother's favorite song: ''Cruisin''' by Smokie Robinson. The odd couple of the drugged-up ex-salesman Todd and the recently released ex-convict Reggie's friendship begins to blossom when they share a duet of ''Try a Little Tenderness''.

 

 

* Happens in the first ''[[Thursday Next]]'' book, ''The Eyre Affair''. The protagonist and another man play a literal piano duet, both playing the same piano at the same time but different parts of the piece. Not a straight-up example, because the two had been lovers in the past, but they weren't together at the time.

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

* 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."

** ''[[Community]]'' [[Dueling Shows|mocks]] Glee's use of the trope - [[Ship Tease|Troy and Annie]]'s [[Buffy-Speak]]-laden attempt is [[Ship Sinking|thwarted]] by [[Moral Guardians|Shirley]].

* It happens on ''[[Victorious]]'' a few times, mainly with Tori and Andre.

* Happens on several occasions in ''[[Star Trek]]'':

 

== Music ==

* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'': Antony and Johanna ("Ah Miss/Kiss Me"), and in a weird sick way, Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett ("My Friends").

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

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

* In ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]'', Cornelius and Irene

* In ''Shrek the Musical'', Fiona and Shrek, during [[Counterpoint Duet|'I Think I Got You Beat']].

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening]]'' was probably the first one. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiCSPEm3KuE&feature=player_detailpage#t=284s Marin teaches Link the hauntingly beautiful Ballad of the Wind Fish], later they go off on an adventure together, and you can't help but think about how {{spoiler|Marin is going to cease to exist}} when you play it to {{spoiler|open the Wind Fish's egg.}}

** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', [[Love Dodecahedron|Saria teaches Link Saria's Song and gives him his first wooden ocarina, Malon teaches him Epona's Song and gives him his horse, and Zelda teaches him the Song of Time and gives him the Ocarina of Time.]] {{spoiler|Also, Shiek, who is actually Zelda in disguise, teaches Link all of the teleporting songs when he's an adult.}} In a slightly less lovey-dovey example, Impa teaches Link Zelda's Lullaby.

 

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