Pachelbel: Canon in D Major


	Pachelbel: Canon in D Major
	Causes Born in Germany 1653-1709 strict canonic order throughout What era? Baroque Why? Basso Continuo/ Dotted rhythms/ Ornamentation	Effects After ground base,first violin enters/descending/ascending crotchet pattern second violin/texture/playing in thirds w/first violin third violin/w/descending crotchet pattern/ Violin 1/next variation in quavers scalic semiquaver variation/disjointed variation of the crotchet pattern/octave leaps/demisemiquaver patterns descending crotchet pattern/reworked/each note repeated in semiquavers / legato variant is heard /texture /increasingly sparse repitition of original ground bass 28 times Coda
	Overall summary

After ground base,first violin enters/descending/ascending crotchet pattern
second violin/texture/playing in thirds w/first violin
third violin/w/descending crotchet pattern/ Violin 1/next variation in quavers
scalic semiquaver variation/disjointed variation of the crotchet pattern/octave leaps/demisemiquaver patterns
descending crotchet pattern/reworked/each note repeated in semiquavers / legato variant is heard /texture /increasingly sparse
repitition of original ground bass 28 times
Coda

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