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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]
This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
String Quartet No. 3 (Bacewicz) String Quartet (Barber) String Quartet (Berg) Black Angels (Crumb) String Quartet in A major (Bliss) String Quartet (Blumenfeld) String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin) The Bow Project; String Quartets, Op. 51 (Brahms) String Quartet No. 3 (Brahms) String Quartet (Bruckner) Rondo in C minor (Bruckner)
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]
Concertino, for small ensemble (1953) (arrangement of 1920 work for string quartet) Epitaphium, for flute, clarinet and harp (1959) Double Canon, for string quartet 'Raoul Dufy in Memoriam' (1959) Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum, for chamber ensemble (1960) "Asciugate I begli ochi" "Ma tu, cagion di quella" "Belta poi che t'assenti"
Measures 41–4 from section C of Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 1. A large work consisting of one movement which lasts longer than 45 minutes, Schoenberg's First String Quartet established his reputation as a composer. Begun in the summer of 1904 and completed in September 1905, the quartet is remarkable for its density of its orchestration.
The Double Canon (Raoul Dufy in Memoriam) is a short composition for string quartet by Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1959. It lasts only about a minute and a quarter in performance. It lasts only about a minute and a quarter in performance.