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First page of Mus.MS 16481-viii from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—the oldest surviving copy of Johann Pachelbel's "Canon and Gigue in D major" (showtime movement popularly known as "Pachelbel'southward Canon"). Shows the first bars of the canon.

Pachelbel'southward Catechism (also known as the Canon in D) is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. The canon was originally scored for 3 violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue.^[a] Both movements are in the key of D major. Although a true canon at the unison in three parts, it also has elements of a chaconne. Neither the appointment nor the circumstances of its composition are known (suggested dates range from 1680 to 1706), and the oldest surviving manuscript re-create of the piece dates from the 19th century.

Like his other works, Pachelbel's Canon went out of style, and remained in obscurity for centuries. A 1968 organization and recording of information technology past the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra gained popularity over the next decade, and in the 1970s the slice began to be recorded past many ensembles; by the early on 1980s its presence as background music was deemed inescapable.^[1] From the 1970s onward, elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, were used in a variety of popular songs. Since the 1980s, it has also institute increasingly mutual use in weddings and funeral ceremonies in the Western world.^{[2] [3]}

Creation [edit]

In his lifetime, Pachelbel was renowned for his organ and other keyboard music, whereas today he is too recognized as an important composer of church and bedroom music.^[four] Lilliputian of his chamber music survives, however. Only Musikalische Ergötzung —a collection of partitas published during Pachelbel's lifetime—is known, apart from a few isolated pieces in manuscripts. The Canon and Gigue in D major is one such slice. A single 19th-century manuscript re-create of them survives, Mus.MS 16481/8 in the Berlin State Library. It contains two more than sleeping room suites. Another copy, previously in Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, is now lost.^[5]

The circumstances of the piece's composition are wholly unknown. Hans-Joachim Schulze, writing in 1985, suggested that the piece may take been composed for Johann Christoph Bach's wedding, on 23 October 1694, which Pachelbel attended. Johann Ambrosius Bach, Pachelbel, and other friends and family unit provided music for the occasion.^[6] Johann Christoph Bach, the oldest brother of Johann Sebastian Bach, was a pupil of Pachelbel. Another scholar, Charles E. Brewer, investigated a variety of possible connections between Pachelbel'south and Heinrich Biber's published chamber music. His enquiry indicated that the Canon may take been composed in response to a chaconne with canonic elements which Biber published as part of Partia Three of Harmonia artificioso-ariosa. That would point that Pachelbel's slice cannot be dated before than 1696, the year of publication of Biber's drove.^[7] Other dates of the Canon's limerick are occasionally suggested, for example, equally early on as 1680.^[8]

Rediscovery and rise to fame [edit]

The Canon (without the accompanying gigue) was first published in 1919 by scholar Gustav Beckmann, who included the score in his commodity on Pachelbel's chamber music.^[9] His research was inspired and supported by early music scholar and editor Max Seiffert, who in 1929 published his arrangement of the Canon and Gigue in his Organum serial.^[10] However, that edition contained numerous articulation marks and dynamics non in the original score. Furthermore, Seiffert provided tempi he considered right for the piece, but that were not supported by later research.^[11] The Canon was first recorded in 1940 by Arthur Fiedler.^[12]

In 1968, the Jean-François Paillard sleeping room orchestra made a recording of the piece that would modify its fortunes significantly.^[ane] This rendition was done in a more Romantic manner, at a significantly slower tempo than it had been played at before, and contained obbligato parts, written by Paillard.^[1] The Paillard recording was released in June in France by Erato Records equally office of an LP that too included the Trumpet Concerto by Johann Friedrich Fasch and other works by Pachelbel and Fasch, all played by the Jean-François Paillard bedroom orchestra. Paillard's estimation of the canon was as well included on a widely distributed album by the mail-lodge label Musical Heritage Society in 1968.

In July 1968, Greek ring Aphrodite'southward Child released the single "Rain and Tears", which was a bizarre-stone adaptation of Pachelbel's Canon.^[13] The band was based in France at the fourth dimension, although it is unknown whether they had heard the Paillard recording, or were inspired by it. "Pelting and Tears" was a success, reaching number one on the pop charts of various European countries. Several months later, in October 1968, Spanish band Pop-Tops released the single "Oh Lord, Why Lord", which again was based on Pachelbel'due south Canon.^[fourteen] Once more, it is unknown whether they were enlightened of or had been inspired by the releases from earlier that twelvemonth. "Oh Lord, Why Lord" was covered by American band Parliament on their 1970 album Osmium.

In 1970, a classical radio station in San Francisco played the Paillard recording and became inundated past listener requests. The piece gained growing fame, specially in California.^[15] In 1974, London Records, aware of the interest in the piece, reissued a 1961 album of the Corelli Christmas Concerto performed by the Stuttgart Sleeping room Orchestra, which happened to contain the piece, now re-titled to Pachelbel Kanon: the Record That Made information technology Famous and other Baroque Favorites.^[xv] The album was the highest-selling classical album of 1976.^[xvi] Its success led to many other tape labels issuing their ain recordings of the work, many of which besides sold well.^[xv]

In 1977, the RCA Red Seal characterization reissued the original Erato album in the United States and elsewhere. In the U.Due south. it was the 6th-highest-selling classical album of 1977. (Two other albums containing Pachelbel's Canon charted for the year: the Stuttgart Bedroom Orchestra anthology at number 17, and some other album featuring the Paillard recording, Go For Baroque!, at number thirteen.)^[17] The Paillard recording was then featured prominently in the soundtrack of the 1980 flick Ordinary People.^[1] The Erato/RCA album kept climbing the Billboard Classical Albums chart, and in January 1982 information technology reached the number 1 position,^[one] where it remained until May 1982, when it was knocked out of beginning place by an album featuring Pachelbel's Catechism played by the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Christopher Hogwood.^[18] The catechism was selected for the soundtrack of Carl Sagan's popular 1980 American PBS television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, and the astronomer cited this work as 1 of his Desert Island Discs on the BBC on xviii July 1981.^[19] In 1981 The Music of Cosmos, a tape album past RCA Records, and in 2000 a CD past the Cosmos Studios label of the soundtrack were published, that characteristic an arrangement of the canon by Glenn Spreen and James Galway.^{[twenty] [21]}

In 1982, pianist George Winston included his "Variations on the Kanon by Johann Pachelbel" on his solo piano album December, which has sold over iii 1000000 copies.^[22]

Analysis [edit]

Pachelbel's Catechism combines the techniques of canon and ground bass. Catechism is a polyphonic device in which several voices play the same music, inbound in sequence. In Pachelbel'southward piece, there are three voices engaged in canon (meet Example 1), but there is as well a quaternary voice, the basso continuo, which plays an contained part.

Example 1. The first 9 bars of the Canon in D. The violins play a 3-vocalization catechism over the ground bass to provide the harmonic construction. Colors highlight the individual canonic entries.

The bass phonation repeats the same two-bar line throughout the piece.

The common musical term for this is ostinato, or ground bass (run across the instance below).

Example 2. Ground bass of Pachelbel'southward Canon fabricated of two bars and eight notes beingness the ground of the eight chords of the canon.

The eight chords suggested past the bass are represented in the table below:

Chord progression of the Canon

No.	Chord	Scale degree	Roman numeral
ane	D major	tonic	I
2	A major	dominant	V
iii	B pocket-size	submediant	half dozen
4	F ♯ pocket-size	mediant	iii
5	G major	subdominant	Four
6	D major	tonic	I
7	One thousand major	subdominant	Four
8	A major	ascendant	V

The eight chords of this progression follow a sequential pattern known as the Romanesca. This progression has been identified as a mutual seventeenth- and eighteenth-century schema past Robert Gjerdingen.^[23]

In Deutschland, Italian republic, and France of the 17th century, some pieces congenital on ground bass were called chaconnes or passacaglias; such footing-bass works sometimes incorporate some form of variation in the upper voices. While some writers consider each of the 28 statements of the ground bass a split variation,^[iv] one scholar finds that Pachelbel's canon is synthetic of just 12 variations, more often than not four confined in length, and describes them as follows:^[24]

1. (confined 0three–0vi) quarter notes (Brit.: crotchets)
2. (confined 0seven–10) eighth notes (Brit.: quavers)
3. (bars 11–xiv) sixteenth notes (Brit.: semiquavers)
4. (bars 15–xviii) leaping quarter notes, rest
5. (confined 19–22) thirty-2d-note (Brit.: demisemiquaver) blueprint on scalar melody
6. (confined 23–26) staccato, eighth notes and rests
7. (bars 27–thirty) sixteenth-note extensions of tune with upper neighbour notes
8. (bars 31–38) repetitive sixteenth-note patterns
9. (bars 39–42) dotted rhythms
10. (bars 43–46) dotted rhythms and sixteenth-note patterns on upper neighbour notes
11. (bars 47–50) syncopated quarter- and eighth-notation rhythm
12. (bars 51–56) 8th-note octave leaps

Pachelbel's Canon thus merges a strict polyphonic grade (the catechism) and a variation form (the chaconne, which itself is a mixture of ground bass composition and variations). Pachelbel skillfully constructs the variations to make them "both pleasing and subtly undetectable."^[24]

Parodies [edit]

In its Baronial 17, 1981, issue the magazine The New Yorker published a drawing past Mick Stevens captioned "Prisoner of Pachelbel,"^[25] in which a prisoner hears over the loudspeaker: "For your listening pleasure, nosotros in one case again present Pachelbel'south Catechism."^[1]

The 1991 musical parody album WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio by P. D. Q. Bach is set at a fictional radio station whose call letters stand for "Wall-To-Wall Pachelbel".^[1]

Influence on popular music [edit]

Several months after the Paillard recording was released, two groups released successful singles with a backing rail based on Pachelbel'due south Canon: Greek ring Aphrodite's Child with "Rain and Tears"^[13] and Spanish group Pop-Tops with "Oh Lord, Why Lord".^[14]

In 2002, pop music producer Pete Waterman described Canon in D as "almost the godfather of pop music because we've all used that in our own ways for the past xxx years". He too said that Kylie Minogue's 1988 UK number one hit single "I Should Be So Lucky", which Waterman co-wrote and co-produced, was inspired by Canon in D.^[26] The Farm's 1990 unmarried "All Together Now" has its chord sequence lifted direct from Pachelbel's Canon.^[8]

The Pet Shop Boys' 1993 cover of "Go West" played up that song'south resemblance to both Pachelbel's Canon and the Soviet Anthem. Coolio's 1997 "C U When U Get There" is built around a sample of the piece. Other songs that make utilize of the Pachelbel's Catechism chord progression include "Streets of London" by Ralph McTell (1974), "Basket Case" by Green Mean solar day (1994), and "Don't Look Back in Acrimony" past Haven (1996) (though with a variation at the end), while Maroon v used the harmonic sequence of Pachelbel'southward Canon (and function of the melody) for their 2019 single "Memories".^[27]

In 2012, the UK–based Co-Operative Funeralcare compiled a list of the virtually popular, classical, contemporary and religious music across 30,000 funerals. Catechism in D placed second on the Classical chart, backside Edward Elgar's "Nimrod".^[3]

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra'due south 1998 song "Christmas Canon" is a "have" on Pachelbel'south Catechism.^[28] JerryC's version, titled "Canon Rock", was one of the earliest viral videos on YouTube when it was covered past Funtwo.^[29] "Sunday Forenoon" on Procol Harum'due south 2017 album Novum is based on just the chords of the canon.^[30]

See too [edit]

References [edit]

1. ^ The combined piece of work is known every bit the Catechism and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo.

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f k} Fink, Robert (2011). "Prisoners of Pachelbel: An Essay in Post-Canonic Musicology". Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft. Frankfurt am Main. 27. ISBN978-three-631-61732-8.
2. ^ Levine, Alexandra S. (9 May 2019). "How 'Canon in D Major' Became the Wedding Song". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 November 2021.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Funeral survey charts the demise of popular hymns". Co-Operative Funeralcare. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
4. ^ ^{a b} Ewald V. Nolte and John Butt, "Pachelbel: (ane) Johann Pachelbel", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited past Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). ISBN 1-56159-239-0.
5. ^ Welter, Kathryn J. 1998. "Johann Pachelbel: Organist, Instructor, Composer: A Critical Reexamination of His Life, Works, and Historical Significance", PhD diss. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University): p. 363.
6. ^ Schulze, Hans-Joachim. Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721) Organist and Schul Collega in Ohrdruf, Deutschland, Johann Sebastian Bachs erster Lehrer, in Bach-Jahrbuch 71 (1985): 70 and footnote 79.
7. ^ Brewer, Charles Eastward. 2013. The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and their Contemporaries, p. 335. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., ISBN 9781409494225
8. ^ ^{a b} Green, Thomas H (27 May 2004). "Birthday Now with Pachelbel". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 20 Baronial 2015.
9. ^ Gustav Beckmann, Johann Pachelbel als Kammerkomponist, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 1 (1918–nineteen): 267–74. The Catechism is found on p. 271.
10. ^ Perreault, Jean M. 2004. The Thematic Catalogue of the Musical Works of Johann Pachelbel, p. 32. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Physician. ISBN 0-8108-4970-iv.
11. ^ Dohr, Christoph (2006), "Preface", Canon und Gigue für drei Violinen und Basso continuo (Urtext). Partitur und Stimmen (in German), Dohr Verlag, ISMN One thousand-2020-1230-vii
12. ^ Daniel Guss, CD booklet to Pachelbel'southward Greatest Hit: The Ultimate Canon, BMG Classics (RCA Red Seal)
13. ^ ^{a b} David Luhrssen with Michael Larson (2017). Encyclopedia of Archetype Rock. Greenwood. p. 7. ISBN9781440835148. {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
14. ^ ^{a b} Kristen Yoonsoo Kim (27 September 2012). "1-Hit Wondering—Johann Pachelbel". Noisey.
15. ^ ^{a b c} Walton, Mary (17 January 1979). "Move over Mick Jagger; hither'south Johann Pachelbel". Knight-Ridder Newspapers.
16. ^ Billboard Year-end Result, 25 December 1976
17. ^ Billboard Year-terminate Double Issue, 24 December 1977
18. ^ Classical LPs Nautical chart, Billboard, 15 May 1982
19. ^ "Desert Island Discs: Carl Sagan". British Dissemination Company. 18 July 1981. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
20. ^ "Diverse – The Music Of "Creation": Selections From The Score of the Idiot box Series "Cosmos" By Carl Sagan – track number 1-06". Discogs. Retrieved eight May 2019.
21. ^ "Canon & Gigue in D by Johann Pachelbel – VERSIONS". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved nine May 2019.
22. ^ Moser, John J. (9 April 2015). "Pianist George Winston, playing in Bethlehem, finds inspiration in disease, recovery". The Morning Call . Retrieved 2 February 2022.
23. ^ Gjerdindan, Robert. 2007a. Music in the Galant Style: Being an Essay on Diverse Schemata Characteristic of Eighteenth-Century Music for Ladylike Chambers, Chapel, and Theaters, Including Tasteful Passages of Music Drawn from Most First-class Chapel Masters in the Employ of Noble and Noteworthy Personages, Said Music All Collected for the Readers Delectations on the Globe Wide Web. Oxford Academy Press.
24. ^ ^{a b} Kathryn Welter, "Johann Pachelbel: Organist, Teacher, Composer: A Critical Reexamination of His Life, Works, and Historical Significance", PhD diss. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1998): pp. 207–208.
25. ^ "'Prisoner of Pachelbel: "For your listening pleasance we again present Pachelbel's Canon."': cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing]," The Morgan Library. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
26. ^ "Pop mogul 'inspired by classics'". BBC News. 7 October 2002. Retrieved thirty May 2013.
27. ^ Rowat, Robert (xx September 2019). "Maroon 5's new song, 'Memories,' is basically Pachelbel'south Canon". CBC . Retrieved 21 September 2019.
28. ^ Chan, Lorne (18 December 2014). "Trans-Siberian Orchestra dusts off "The Christmas Attic"". San Antonio Express-News.
29. ^ Heffernan, Virginia. "Web Guitar Sorcerer Revealed at Terminal". The New York Times . Retrieved 9 December 2021.
30. ^ Warne, Jude (18 April 2017). "Prog Rock Icons Procol Harum Render With Their 50th Anniversary Album". Observer.

External links [edit]

• Pachelbel's Canon: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Costless sheet music of Canon in D from Cantorion.org
• Midi-files, videos, and sheet resource from Johann Pachelbel'due south Catechism
• Harmony and voice leading of the ›Pachelbelsequenz‹ (in German language)
• Historical operation of the Catechism on original instruments on YouTube by Voices of Music using baroque instruments, bows, and playing techniques

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