Product Description
Opus/Catalog Number: P.37
Key/Tone: D major
Movements/Sections: Canon
Year/Date of Composition: 1680~
Difficulty: Grade 5/12 (Intermediate)
Obs.: Pachelbel's Canon is the first of two movements in the composer's Kanon und Gigue für 3 Violinen mit Generalbaß, PWC 37, T 337, PC 358. It was originally composed for three violins and basso continuo. This score is an arrangement for string quartet (violins 1 and 2, viola and cello). Pachelbel's Canon is an authentic canon, because the three violins play the exact same part, at intervals of two measures. It also has elements of a chaconne, namely a repeated short harmonic progression, a stepwise descending melody (as in the first two measures of the violin part), as well as a repetitive bass line.
Included: Full score and separated parts for each instrument
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