Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D Major: Piano: Instrumental Album

Pachelbel???s exuberant and justly famous Canon may well have been first heard at the wedding of Johann Christoph Bach. Originally for small ensemble Mary Cohen???s new arrangement of the work for solo piano or keyboard will suit players moving from easy towards intermediate repertoire.

Originally for strings this well-known work is equally suited for organ. It is instantly recognisable from its use on many television advertisements. This edition contains both the canon and the less often played gigue.

Johann Pachelbel born in Nuremberg in 1653 a generation before Bach is one of Southern Germany?s most important post-Reformation organ composers. His compositions were already widely known at the time. The most popular worktoday is probably the canon with ensuing gigue in D major. The canon - according to the source ?a 3 Violinis con Basso c.? - is built up over an ostinato bass whose two bar fi gure is repeated a total of 28 times. The followingshort gigue is also in a strict contrapuntal style. It is not known when the work was composed. As with most of his other chamber music works Pachelbel might have composed it during his time in Thuringia between 1677 and 1695.This pleasing work is also popular with amateur ensembles.

Sympathetic arrangements with optional practice backing tracks and performances on the accompanying CD. All highly playable.In the interests of playability the strict formality of Pachelbel's 'Canon' has been relaxed while allowing the spirit of the original to shine through. The key has been simplified from D major to C major and the seventeenth century rhythmic notation updated to improve readability. The optional Companion CD allows for small 12 bar sections (between each of the rehearsal letters) to be practised both 'slowly' with metronome click) and 'a tempo' before putting the whole piece together — ideally in the company of another human!

Sing, Choirs! is a library in miniature. It contains many of the Christian church's popular traditional anthems, including at least one example that will be suitable for each of the major services of the year. A number of Anglican chants (Psalms, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) are included, set out in a way that should enable those who are unfamiliar with the style to perform them easily. The selection of movements from the Mass can be used to enrich the music of the liturgy in services. Many of the works in Sing, Choirs! are presented in their original form, such as Bruckner's Locus Iste and Mozart's Laudate Dominum . Others are arrangements, adaptations or longer pieces, abridged to bring them into the scope of a useable anthem, including choral arrangements of Handel's Largo , the Ave Marias by Schubert and by Bach and Gounod, and Franck's Panis Angelicus amongst many others. This collection has practicability as a priority. The Organ parts can be played on either the Piano or the Keyboard. Much of the music in Sing, Choirs! will be suitable for special occasions, making this an indispensable volume for choirs singing at weekly church services, weddings, funerals and in the concert hall. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue

Par PACHELBEL JOHANN. Avec ce travail, Pachelbel, qui est né à Nuremberg, créé une des pièces orchestrales plus populaires de la période baroque. Dans le canon, deux des formes contrapuntiques plus strictes sont combinées : les parties de trois violon forment un vaste canon avec des entrées de la distance de deux bars. Pour cela, une basse de sol (ostinato de basso) a été ajoutée répéter sa formule deux barres ton 28 fois. La maîtrise technique de la pièce peut être ad-embourbée tout autant que son effet réside dans la puissance mélodique et sensuelle de ses tons de la chaîne. Les exigences techniques modestes sur les musiciens sont diamétralement opposés à la composition - niveau : ils ne vont pas au-delà de la troisième position./ Répertoire / 3 Violons et Basse Continue ou Orchestre à Cordes)

Par PACHELBEL JOHANN. Avec ce travail, Pachelbel, qui est né à Nuremberg, créé une des pièces orchestrales plus populaires de la période baroque. Dans le canon, deux des formes contrapuntiques plus strictes sont combinées : les parties de trois violon forment un vaste canon avec des entrées de la distance de deux bars. Pour cela, une basse de sol (ostinato de basso) a été ajoutée répéter sa formule deux barres ton 28 fois. La maîtrise technique de la pièce peut être ad-embourbée tout autant que son effet réside dans la puissance mélodique et sensuelle de ses tons de la chaîne. Les exigences techniques modestes sur les musiciens sont diamétralement opposés à la composition - niveau : ils ne vont pas au-delà de la troisième position./ Répertoire / 3 Violons et Basse Continue ou Orchestre à Cordes)