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Set Two of Three · The Duets

First Love — The 48 Duets

The forty-eight duet songs written right after the first twenty-seven — love songs for two voices, composed with the same frequency charts and the same template. They are the second set of the collection, and their place in this package stands exactly as it stands in the recovery record.

The set, as the record holds it

The recovery inventory counts the forty-eight duets and describes their shape, but the original manuscripts — the lyrics, the complete song sheets, the keys and the arrangement masters — could not be verified in the accessible archive, and no individual duet titles stand in the record. Nothing has been invented, rewritten, or substituted for them.

• Duets 1–31 — the earliest set: the first group of love duets composed with the frequency charts. Manuscripts in recovery.
• Duets 32–48 — the later set: a separate, later group of duet songs. They were deliberately never substituted for the earliest songs, and they stand in recovery as their own set.
• Three further songs reconcile the collection's full count — 27 + 48 + 3 = 78 songs. They too stand in recovery, unnamed in the record.

How a duet page will stand when its manuscript is in hand

Each duet is designed to open on its own page — the song owns the screen, with a back arrow only — in two lanes made for the two kinds of readers who learn a song:

The lanes stand ready in the design. They will be filled from the manuscripts themselves — never from another song, and never from imagination.

What completion takes

From the recovery record: recover the earliest duet master or song sheets, verify the titles, order and text against the approved versions, attach the associated instrumental and arrangement records, and package the exact masters without rewriting. When that is done, each duet takes its own page here, in its two lanes.