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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 .
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]
The famous Canon in D belongs to this genre, as it was originally scored for 3 violins and a basso continuo, and paired with a gigue in the same key. The canon shares an important quality with the chaconne and passacaglia : it consists of a ground bass over which the violins play a three-voice canon based on a simple theme, the violins' parts ...
The bass line to Pachelbel's Canon in D. Date: 24 September 2007: Source: Created by bdesham with GNU LilyPond. Author: Benjamin D. Esham : Permission (Reusing this file) As a courtesy (but not a requirement), please e-mail me or leave a note on my talk page if you use this image outside of Wikipedia. Thanks!
Chaconne in D minor (PWC 41, T. 204, PC 147, POP 14) is an organ chaconne by Johann Pachelbel. It is one of the six surviving chaconnes by the composer, and one of his best known organ works. The chaconne survives in a single manuscript, the famous Andreas Bach Buch compiled by Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721), Johann Sebastian Bach's eldest ...
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