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I am looking for a file with a recording of Pachelbel's Canon in D, piano version, using the arrangement by Robert Schultz (about 10 pages). I can find lots of different recordings of the Canon but most are orchestra or even mainly strings, which are beautiful to listen to, but I am working on the piano piece myself and would really like to have a good recording of it to help me learn it.

Do any of you know where I can find an mp3 that would fit this description? I have checked many internet sites but am getting very discouraged, so if you know of a short cut for me I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance.

I think someone recorded it here...check the members recording section.

A bit off-topic, but why is the piece called a canon. I can see virtually no relation to what I understand is a canon. This seems to be more theme and variations!

It's a ground bass, as for why it's called canon... i'm not sure, I thought a canon involved a theme that is repeated throuought the piece but with variation.... Which it does. (sort of?)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbel\'s_Canon

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It's a ground bass

Similar to the one that occurs in BWV 211?



-Michael B.

I'm afraid I don't know BWV 211 !

I'm not much of a Bach person, not *yet* anyway -though I plan to get started on some soon, I really should, I've yet to touch a Bach piece thoughout my 2 years of piano study...

Damn ABRSM pieces eat up my time!

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It seems to you more like theme and variations probably because of the ground bass. But, from what I remember a strict 3-voice canon pertains all the way through. All the upper textures derive from it.


John

Canon: The most rigid form of imitation, a subject (antecedent) being followed accurately by an answer (consequent); once the playground of musical ingenuity, all forms of complication being indulged in. A canon written out completely was full or aperto. Often only the antecedent was written out, the consequent (now called fuga or consequenza) being left to the performers skill; this was called close or chiuso. If the entrances of the other parts were indicated by cabalistic signs , it was a 'riddle-canon', or enigmatical or enigmatico. Canons were named by the interval between answer and antecedent and by the general treatment.
Music Lovers' Encyclopedia, Hughes, Taylor and Kerr.

Is it supposed to be something like species counterpoint? To me, it doesn't seem to follow that either. That it has a 'ground bass' is understood.

if you have come across the original strings version of pachabel's version, when you look at the score, you should udnerstand what is canon.

canon, is a kind of imitation where it follow fully (or almost fully) by another instruemnt or part of the same piece. and the second imitation starts just when the first theme end, or a bit before it ends.

i'll make it easier.

let say the 1st violin play the first theme at bar 9-16, then the 2nd violin will play the theme at bar 17-24, then the 3rd violin or cello will play the same theme at bar 25-32.

back to 1st violin, there's another theme or melody played ay bar 17-24, then the 2nd violin will repeat it at 25-32 and so on.

this is what i understand from "canon" this device, and from what i have seen from the score of pachabel's canon.

i just finish my grade 8 theory this august..

I understand what a canon is--I had species and Palestrinian counterpoint classes--and have samples of canon. In looking and playing the piano arrangements and hearing the orchestral versions I fail to detect the imitation that signifies a canon--the imitation which must be exact! I don't have the original score as penned by Pachelbel tho it might prove to be more reliable. I see a theme repeated with variations--maybe a chaconne or passacaglia but not a canon--at least until someone shows me how it is one!