Pachelbel, Canon in D (2.1) w/scrolling bar-graph score
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ย. 2009
- Pachelbel's celebrated "Canon in D," performed by Voices of Music, overlaid with a scrolling graphical score.
FAQ
Q: Where can I get the sheet music for this piece?
A: The full score can be downloaded here
www.musanim.com/pdf/PachelbelC...
and parts that you can perform from are here:
www.musanim.com/pdf/PachelbelC...
and here's an arrangement for flute quartet (ZIP file with score and parts)
www.musanim.com/pdf/CanonArrFl...
Q: Who is playing this music?
A: The group is called Voices of Music; the performers in this piece are
Katherine Kyme, Carla Moore and Cynthia Miller Freivogel, baroque violin,
Tanya Tomkins, baroque violoncello,
Hanneke van Proosdij, baroque organ, and
David Tayler, theorbo
Q: These performers are wonderful; where I can hear more?
A: Voices of Music record on the Magnatune label:
magnatune.com/artists/voicesof...
Q: Where can I get the mp3 of this?
A: This recording will be available at Magnatune pretty soon.
Q: Why does the title say "2.1 of 3"?
A: I'm planning to do three versions of this piece. The first version shows the score and the bar-graph notation:
• Pachelbel, Canon in D ...
The third version will show more about how the canon works. In this version (2.1), the synchronization is off and the bars are too wide; I've posted another version here (2.2) in which I've tried to improve those things:
• Pachelbel, Canon in D ...
Q: What is a "canon"?
A: As usual, Wikipedia has some good articles about this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_%2...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbe...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_P...
Q: Is there a way I could make the bar-graph scores myself?
A: The Music Animation Machine MIDI file player will generate this display; you can get the (Windows) software here:
www.musanim.com/player/
There are lots of places on the web where you can get MIDI files; I usually go to the Classical Archives site first:
www.classicalarchives.com/
If you want to upload your videos to TH-cam, you might want to read this:
www.musanim.com/youtube/HowToM...
Q: Could you please do a MAM video of _________?
A: First, check my "to do" list (and the related "to don't" list):
www.musanim.com/all/MAMToDoLis... ...
If the piece isn't listed, read the "Could you please do a MAM video of _________?" item on my main FAQ:
www.musanim.com/mam/mamfaq.htm... ...
and if you think I'd consider doing it, email me (stephen at musanim dot com).
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The standard modern string quartet is two violins, a viola, and a violoncello (and no other instruments). This piece is for three violins and continuo (which can be performed on one or more instruments, one of which is usually a keyboard instrument or one that can play chords, like a lute; it's up to the performers to decide how to realize the continuo part).
Thanks. It's a good way of explaining to student the meaning of 'canon' in Music. Plus I just love Canon in C
I also like it in D, you should listen it
@Hofsteder "Canon on a ground" is what it's typically called. Passacaglia, chaconne, etc. refer to the fact that the bass (or harmony) is repeated, but this also has a canon (in the top three parts), so while you might say that it's a passacaglia, it's more than that, too.
OMG FINALLY people that play it with such energy, emotion, joy...not a flat stance or expression in sight :)
Music of Past times. With no words of hate , love, or justice. Just pure sound Of happiness
This is one of my most favorite peaces. I like how you put the players in the back ground and their bows matched the bars. good job.
It reminds me of the scroll on a player paino. My kids loved watching this. It took them over an hour to which instrument was represented by what bar. Really Wonderful!
Fantastic! Bravo! Thank you very much for this and all your greatly talented work.
really love the visualization.
@athenalover5903 The instrument in the middle ground (that's being played) is a portative organ; the one in the background (behind the left violins) is a harpsichord.
The way I look at it, Magnatune is helping me much more than I'm helping them --- top-notch performances that I can license for a reasonable amount for my projects.
I like playing the bass part and listening to the music go by.
this is EXCELLENT... i knew this melody from different occasions... but never knew what it's called... great melody!!! 10x for posting it
It is very interesting to look at both scrooling graphical score and musicians playing! Great idea, thank you!
This looks really cool - starts to look like a heartbeat measuring machine as it gets complicated.
This is one of my favorite pieces :) Thank you for sharing!
I love it at this tempo, I wish more people played it this fast.
Wow, I wouldn't mind more like this. As always, excellent work.
@thebrainnugget My point is that it is a "canon" --- the three violin parts are identical throughout the entire piece. See Canon_(music) on Wikipedia. So, while it's true that the bass line repeats (which means that the piece is a passacaglia), it's also true that it contains a canon.
@Nibbie13 It's a canon all the way through: they all play from the same (single line of) music; they just start and stop at different times.
@thebrainnugget It's both: the 'cello has the repeating passacaglia bass line, and the three violins all play the same part (in canon).
@EpicHeros Fugues and canons both have imitative counterpoint. In a canon, the imitation is strict (exact); in a fugue, the imitation needn't be strict. So, I'd probably say it the other way around: a fugue has canon-like elements to it.
I could cry... I desperately want to learn violin... Been a childhood dream.. And I love classical music..
I would like to commend you on how professional all of your videos look. The entire credits section is something that I think is rare with most videos and it shows a lot. I love all of your videos. Cheers.
This is purely beautiful..
Stephen, you are a master...thank you...
That was my parent's wedding march...
I think I know why you'd cry to a piece like this- it is often used as a wedding piece, but couldn't it also fit a funeral? Think about it. It's graceful, consoling. The more I think about it, the more right it feels....
this is one of the best music of all time!
is really fantastic to follow this wonderful music by following this useful aid! thanks
Beautiful!
This is very hypnotic to look at. Nice.
@thebrainnugget No particular reason. My guess as to why it ended up being characterized (and named) as a canon is that it's easier to do a passacaglia than a canon (you just riff over the bass line in a passacaglia, but in a canon, you have to make sure things work note-by-note), so the "canon" aspect of it is more significant, more impressive, than the "passacaglia" aspect. Like the difference between writing a generic contrapuntal piece and writing a fugue.
extremely beautiful
Thanks ! I LOVE this piece!!
@Nibbie13 Oh, but it is: the three violins are all playing the same exact notes. The 'cello is playing something different, a repeating pattern. So, the full description would be "canon on a ground bass."
It is fantastic, thanks for upload!!
Great piece of art.
this video is very well put to gether very nice job i love it!
@xtremerandomness Not necessarily. A fugue subject can have either a real answer (exact interval imitation) or a tonal answer (non-exact). And, of course, after the exposition, it can modulate, and there the subject can be changed a lot (changing major to minor or vice versa, for example).
Your videos set a new bar for the meaning of "awesome." Thank you. Danke. Merci. Obrigado. Gracias. Grazie.
That is beautiful
Amazing!
@Emerael That's because this is a baroque ensemble which (obviously) uses baroque tuning which differs from the standard A=440hz, using rather lower tunings such as A=392hz.
the footage at 0:40 is precious. the original video doesn’t have that scene of the third violinist.
Amazing!!
@rwexelblat Actually, we do have an idea, based on similarities between this piece and other pieces in which we can infer tempi based on lung capacity, bow length, etc. The slow, vibrato-heavy, lugubrious performances that many people are used to are clearly a holdover from late-romantic performance practices. But anybody who's played Sweelinck's music (for example) would know: this is not supposed to be a lot slower than this performance.
Nice man, Excellent edit :D
I'm planning three versions; I'm sure each one will appeal to different people. I wanted one to include the actual performance. This is the first time I've tried the bar-graph score as an overlay. I'm going to do it again with thinner bars and see whether that works better.
CANNON!!!!
I enjoy every post smalin. Thank you.
Hey, that;s about the speed of some of us-- we all have our places eh? :-)
I really love Stephen's graphic representation of this timeless bit of musical art. It really lets you look at the music as never before, literally!
wow this is awesome!
That was great I love your scrolling bar graph and the added visual it gives to this amazing piece. I agree Piranha on the tempo comment too.
I love it !
Very nice!
beautiful; thanks for this.
The keyboard instrument is actually a harpsicord, which is like a piano only that the strings are plucked instead of struck. You are correct in that this is not what is now considered a string quarter, but it is very much a medieval string ensemble, which also often included the baroque lute, which is the guitar like instrument in this clip, and hand harps.
wow that is fantastic!
B_E_A_U_T_I_F_U_L! ! ! THANK YOU! ! !
@smalin Wow, thank you so much for providing a music link for this piece!!!
I've been wanting to have a complete score for years. They're pretty expensive at most music stores, but this one is free!
Excellent representational work.
You might want to look at my more recent videos: www.musanim.com/TH-camHighlights/
incredible
@Croski1 This is the joy of the ground bass =P
The organ plays it as well. This is possibly the simplest piece on Smalin's chanel- 8 chords the whole way through, and really only one violin part, played slightly after one another.
There's a cellst in my music class. I always tease her by threatening to make her play this =P
by the end I was like: OMG it's starting to look like triple rainbow!!!! Thank you for posting this.
my tears dropped :) Love that
Exactly. it might fir itn 16:9 format,with the orchestra above,and your usual note section in a lower "bar". not sure how it might compress the height of either part.
@rageagainstthebath Yeah, that's pretty much the consensus of the people who study that sort of thing. The tradition of playing it much slower is a modern one (like, from the last hundred years or so).
That's right --- "old pitch" (what was typical at the time the piece was written A=415 or so).
@askdubi The answer is: I don't. I get a score (like, out of a library) and enter it from that.
@smalin - what I meant was how do you take the video of the live performance (like the one in this video) and enter it into the notation program? do you do it manually or is the notation program able to distinguish between instruments? in any case - thank you for all your hard work! I'm just addicted to your videos. For me, as someone who is not a musician and doesn't really understand how music "works", these videos help me follow the music, so thank you again, and God bless.
AUUUUUUUUSOME man!!
@askdubi There is no good way to convert from audio to MIDI. I make a MIDI file by entering the score into a notation program and exporting a MIDI file version of that. If necessary, I adjust the timings of this MIDI file to match preexisting audio. The video is generated from the MIDI file.
AWESOME :O!
beautuifull . and touching my hearts
thanks so much for answering!
wonderful
amazing
I love the bar graph score over the live performance video. Although I share Rob Paravonian's disaffection for this piece for the countless derivative works (and bad weddings) in which it is used, this video makes those 8 magic bass notes a little more interesting.
this is baroque music, and you have to bear that point in mind when judging speed, it's designed to show the instruments off, therefore has to have a decent tempo behind it, if you think about it this tempo isn't particularly fast, looking at the score it's mainly based on quavers, and this tempo isn't alot faster than a classic march.
Muito bom! Boa idéia!
@Caecenno Neither. While listening to the recording, I tapped a "click track" which I recorded; then I aligned the graphics to the click track. So, the graphic notation is aligned with where I *felt* the beats.
idk about everyone else but everytime i hear this song i think of weddings mostly cause this was played in the amazing move father of the bride...great song.
The Parvonian Pachelbel rant is definitely worth it ;)
thank you!
Pachelbel uno de las personas más inteligentes de la tierra ¡¡¡que tal inspiración para crear esta obra de arte!!!
amazing thx
I delete all the hate speech, spam, irrelevancies, redundancies and other objectionable comments from my videos.
@smalin Wonderful answer!
o . o woah I thought the people were a picture but then they started moving o . o!! It shocked me. I always liked this song
goosebumps
Right, it's kind of like being able to be on the inside and the outside of the music at the same time.
violin jam awesome.
this is going to be the song in my wedding ♥_♥
awesome
J'adore !!!
I really like how you can see the musicians in the backround. Why haven't you done this more?
it´s fantastic!. What kind of software do you use to make this type of animation?
+musicaranda It's software I wrote myself. For the history of this project, see www.musanim.com/mam/mamhist.htm ... for the future, see MusicEyes.org ...
Thank you very much, I´m googling this web. On the other hand, Your videos are fantastic, specially, when a music teacher attempt to explain some musical elements: for instance: melody, harmony, and so on... Congratulations!!
@smalin Thanks, great to learn something new :) Last question: So what was the tempo intended by the author?
Also great job supporting small independent labels such as Magnatune.
omg, im only 11, but inlove with classical music, and my mind is being blown to smitherines by this speech form of canon fugue and all this CRAP...
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