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Pachelbel's Canon (also known as the Canon in D, P 37) is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. The canon was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue, known as Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo. Both movements are in the key of D major.
Suzannah Clark, a music professor at Harvard, connected the piece's resurgence in popularity to the harmonic structure, a common pattern similar to the romanesca.The harmonies are complex, but combine into a pattern that is easily understood by the listener with the help of the canon format, a style in which the melody is staggered across multiple voices (as in "Three Blind Mice"). [1]
Spektral Quartet is a string quartet based in Chicago comprising Clara Lyon (violin), Theo Espy (violin), Doyle Armbrust (viola) and Russell Rolen (cello). [1] The ensemble was founded in 2010 and was active until 2022. Spektral Quartet served as the ensemble-in-residence at the University of Chicago's Department of Music from 2012 to 2018. [2]
Lumiere Records is an American record label that concentrates on classical music with crossover appeal and pop arrangements by classical ensembles such as string quartets. The label was established by Victoria Paterson in 2006 and is based in New York City.
Due to the immense wealth of their respective families, the Chicago press chronicled their mundane social activities, and newspaper columnists feted the young women as the city's most desirable debutantes. [7] [8] In the summer of 1914, these friends began referring to themselves as "The Big Four", even getting rings engraved with "The Big Four ...
String Quartet in D major may refer to: No. 4 of the String Quartets, Op. 20 (Haydn) No. 6 of the String Quartets, Op. 33 (Haydn) No. 6 of the String Quartets, Op. 50 ...
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An example of a classical strict canon is the Minuet of Haydn's String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2. [12] "Throughout its sinewy length, between upper and lower strings. Here is the superbly logical fulfilment of the two-part octave doubling of Haydn's earliest divertimento minuets": [13]