Canon in D for String Orchestra
Score and Parts
by Johann Pachelbel
String Orchestra - Sheet Music

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String Orchestra - intermediate

SKU: HL.49013534

Score and Parts. Composed by Johann Pachelbel. Edited by Helmut W. May. Arranged by Helmut May. This edition: Plastic cover. Sheet music. String Orchestra. Classical. Set of parts in groups, each 3 violins I-III, 3 violins ad lib., 2 violas ad lib., 3 cellos/double basses. Duration 3'. Schott Music #CON111-70. Published by Schott Music (HL.49013534).

ISBN 9790001023214. UPC: 884088031657. 9.0x12.0x0.245 inches.

With this work, Pachelbel, who was born in Nuremberg, created one of the most popular orchestral pieces of the baroque period. In the canon two of the strictest contrapuntal forms are combined: The three violin parts form an extensive canon with entries of two bars distance. To this, a ground bass (basso ostinato) has been added repeating its two-bar tone formula 28 times. The technical mastery of the piece can be ad-mired just as much as its effect lies in the melodic and sensuous power of its string tones. The modest technical demands on the musicians are diametrically opposed to the compositional -level: They do not go beyond the third position.