Canon and Gigue in D major (Pachelbel)
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.
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:
- the former Soviet national anthem and today's anthem of the Russian Federation
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Spicks and Bacon from the Bee Gees
- based on it If a person lives the puhdys
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Go West by Village People , covered by Pet Shop Boys
- based on the fan anthems Olé, now BVB comes and stand up if you're Schalke
- Whatever and Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis
- All The Young Dudes and Changes by David Bowie
- the fan anthem We from the East always go forward by 1. FC Union Berlin , sung by Nina Hagen
- CU When You Get There by Coolio
- Fairytales by 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor
- The one from Die Firma
- Basket Case from Green Day
- Memories from Maroon 5
See also
Web links
- Gustav Beckman: Johann Pachelbel as a chamber composer. In: Archives for Musicology . 1918, p. 267. Therein: p. 271, Canon. Notation based on the manuscript of the library of the Royal Academic Institute for Church Music in Charlottenburg. (archive.org)
- Canon and jig (cantore archive)
- Canon and Gigue in D Major (Pachelbel) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Free notes in the Cantorion
- Canon in D major (orchestral version)
- The parallelism (the ›Pachelbelsequenz‹) on musikanalyse.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fan anthem: What makes Nina Hagen's “Iron Union” a catchy tune? In: Berliner Zeitung , August 5, 2017
- ↑ 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 .