Pachebels Canon

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Pachebels Canon, Love it or Hate it

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Morgan's Munchkin	Sep 1 2006, 09:08 AM Post #1
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1575 Joined: 1-December 05 Member No.: 5432	Ok, so me and a friend were having a debate about this after i found an arrangement for flute and piano and decided i was doing it as my AS music performance. What do you think of Pachebels Canon. I absolutely love it, and it's probably my favourite piece of music (other than dance of the sugar plum fairy and the dance of the reed pipes - think thats what it's called). However my mate hates it and thinks it's too overused. Discuss....

Georgia_Sande	Sep 1 2006, 09:25 AM Post #2
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 24-August 06 Member No.: 7487	Sorry to be negative but I think it is a repetitive 'boring' piece of music in its native form. When I play it I usually use lots of improvisation and modulate to a couple of different keys 'on the fly' so to speak. For the time when Pachelbel wrote it I suppose 'minimalism' was the order of the day, and could, I suppose, compare with some of the Einaudi minimalistic, and Glass serialistic 'stuff' of today. Being a Chopin fan I love lots and lots of complicated, rich chords, arpeggios, cadenzas, chromatics and the like in my music.

WelshClarinet	Sep 1 2006, 09:45 AM Post #3
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 16-May 06 Member No.: 6939	I quite like it. We played it with our class 'band' in year 8 and had loads of fun!

FionaM	Sep 1 2006, 10:46 AM Post #4
Member Group: Members Posts: 58 Joined: 26-April 06 Member No.: 6757	My friend and I used to play it when we were teenagers, we got together recently and tried to play it agin but not having the music and me having hardly played for years we couldn't do it!! Does anyone know where I could get hold of a copy of the music?

bohemian	Sep 1 2006, 10:49 AM Post #5
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2066 Joined: 10-September 05 From: England Member No.: 4665	QUOTE(Georgia_Sande @ Sep 1 2006, 10:25 AM) ...compare with some of the Einaudi minimalistic, and Glass serialistic 'stuff' of today. Glass, seralistic? Hmm. I hate it. Not simply because it's a dull piece of music, but because it is so rarely played well. I would be happy if I never heard it again (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Oh, and I think arrangements of it for solo instruments with piano and horrible.

jacobvaneyck	Sep 1 2006, 10:52 AM Post #6
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 3595 Joined: 20-January 05 Member No.: 2998	It's very nice, even for those not really into Classical music. It was one of the first Classical pieces I actually liked hearing, along with Mozart and some Handel. I played the keyboard part with a string quartet once, loved it. It can be arranged in so many ways without similar derogatory treatment as Barber's Adagio remixed. Some fine examples on Youtube, I've found at least two videos - one a clarinettist and one an electric guitar. I don't think it's like other overused things, like the Sugar Plum Fairy etc. It has some nice harmonic examples, progression etc., often copied in pop music.

Frederic Chopin	Sep 1 2006, 10:57 AM Post #7
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1849 Joined: 25-December 05 From: Bristol, UK (via Zelazowa Wola) Member No.: 5637	It is such a wonderful piece of music! Heavenly!

cellocase	Sep 1 2006, 11:00 AM Post #8
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 748 Joined: 17-June 06 Member No.: 7181	I loved it the first time I heard it. But now, after numerous school-concert-squeaky-ensembles and having it played on radios so much etc, i think i need a pachebel break....

Morgan's Munchkin	Sep 1 2006, 11:01 AM Post #9
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1575 Joined: 1-December 05 Member No.: 5432	QUOTE(bohemian @ Sep 1 2006, 11:49 AM) Oh, and I think arrangements of it for solo instruments with piano and horrible. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Hmmm....considers changing performance piece incase the examiner hates it too

crazy_purple_piano_freak	Sep 1 2006, 11:15 AM Post #10
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 9349 Joined: 3-May 05 Member No.: 3608	Is there not an inbetween option? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) Used to love it...now I don't, but don't hate it...

possom	Sep 1 2006, 11:40 AM Post #11
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 762 Joined: 29-June 04 From: Suffolk Member No.: 1603	I love it so much I had it played at my wedding (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

surfergal	Sep 1 2006, 11:52 AM Post #12
Member Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 10-August 06 Member No.: 7352	I played it at a flute choir once in a concert, we worked on it for ages and it sounded beautiful, it was a lovely arrangement too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

hazel	Sep 1 2006, 11:58 AM Post #13
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 683 Joined: 14-March 06 From: Midlands Member No.: 6445	QUOTE(possom @ Sep 1 2006, 12:40 PM) I love it so much I had it played at my wedding (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I love it too! I wanted to have it as I walked down the aisle. However the organist (a friend!) pointed out that since the church entrance is at the side, and the church is very small, he'd have only played the first four bars before I'd have arrived at the vicar, and since it doesn't get exciting until halfway through, it was a bad choice (had an excerpt from the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba instead). So he played it whilst we were signing the register instead which was much better. We had the Monty Python theme tune as we walked out, which the vicar thought was hilarious (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Other popular pieces of music have been based on Pachelbel's canon (The Farm's "altogether now" springs to mind, can't think of any others but I know there have been several). And just because you've heard it massacred by a school orchestra, that's no reason to dislike a piece, otherwise there'd be hardly anything you liked - good on them for having a go, I say. Hazel

Morgan's Munchkin	Sep 1 2006, 12:10 PM Post #14
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1575 Joined: 1-December 05 Member No.: 5432	QUOTE(hazel @ Sep 1 2006, 12:58 PM) Other popular pieces of music have been based on Pachelbel's canon (The Farm's "altogether now" springs to mind, can't think of any others but I know there have been several). Coolio (is it spelt with a C or a K?) - 'I'll see you when you get there' is another one.

sarah-flute	Sep 1 2006, 12:32 PM Post #15
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 25735 Joined: 14-December 04 From: Insomniaville Member No.: 2729	Pachelbel rather than Pachebel (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) It's a "nice" piece (damning with faint praise (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)) but it is unbelievably overused.

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