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Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet - Digital Download SKU: A0.997508 Composed by Henry Fillmore. Arranged by Ethan Owens, Owen Ashbeck. 20th Century,Jazz. Score and parts. 2 pages. Ethan Owens #6687591. Published by Ethan Owens (A0.997508). A trombone duet arrangement of Lassus Trombone. DISCLAIMER: This piece is said to have racist origins, and it absolutely does. When Henry Fillmore originally put out the piece, he did in fact publish it with racist depictions of African-American trombonists. However, it is my opinion that the music itself is not racist. After all, it is an instrumental piece. It does not have racist lyrics like minstrel songs do, nor is it published anymore with racist depictions of people. And additionally, American music started with racism. It started with minstrel shows and blackface. That is how American musical culture was formed, and you can find songs with much worse backgrounds than this one that are still performed today. Even the Christmas tune "Jingle Bells" was originally a minstrel song, and that is still performed. Simply erasing this music won't do anything. That's my opinion. If you disagree, don't play it. This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).