Canon and Gigue in D major (Pachelbel)

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Canon a 3 violini con Basso c.
Piano arrangement of the canon (2min 51s)

Canon and Gigue in D major , original title Canon a 3 Violini con Basso continuo , is a work by the Nuremberg baroque composer Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706). It is by far his most popular composition, through which his name is present in the area of crossover and pop music .

It is the only canon handed down by Pachelbel . He probably wrote the work for the wedding of Johann Christoph Bach , the older brother of Johann Sebastian Bach, which took place on October 23, 1694.

Instrumentation and harmonies

The instrumentation of the three-part canon is given in the Urtext editions with 3 violins and basso continuo . The piece of music is based on a permanently repeated bass figure ( ostinato ). The two-bar chord progression D - A - B - F sharp - G - D - G - A of the canon, also known as the Pachelbel scheme , uses one sequence , namely parallelism , and is repeated a total of 28 times - this results in a total of 57 together with the final bar Measures over which this chord progression is strictly observed.

The canon includes a jig on. This is in 12/8 time and is 40 bars long.

The first nine bars of the canon in D : The violins play a three-part canon over the bass part, which contains the ostinato. The colors here indicate 3 of a total of 28 variations of the canon theme.

Adaptations

By Canon in D a large number exists of shots versions and edits. The harmony sequence is used again and again across all musical genres. Among other things, it is attributed to:

See also

Web links

Commons : Canon and Gigue in D major (Pachelbel)  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikibooks: Guitar: Chord Progression: The Pachelbel Sequence  - Collection of songs based on the Pachelbel sequence.

Individual evidence

  1. Fan anthem: What makes Nina Hagen's “Iron Union” a catchy tune? In: Berliner Zeitung , August 5, 2017
  2. Norbert Linke : On the difficulty and necessity of securing melodic proof of origin. In: Deutsche Johann Strauss Gesellschaft (Ed.): Neues Leben , Issue 53 (2016 / No. 3), pp. 54–59, ISSN  1438-065X .