Can you define the form of music called a "pachelbel"?!
Question: Can you define the form of music called a "pachelbel"!?
the name came from the composer's style, but I can't find a definition (perhaps just a three part canon or perhaps some other/more criteria)!. It's been almost 50 years since I heard the term and my memory has run off, along with most of my skills!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
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I've never heard the musical term "Pachelbel", but I have heard of a Canon, as you've described it in your question!.
I've been through two different music texts and neither of them contain any information about a musical term called "Pachelbel"!.
I suspect it has something to do with his specific (i!.e!. Baroque) style of writing, but you would have to check up on the extensive information on Wikipedia!.
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I've been through two different music texts and neither of them contain any information about a musical term called "Pachelbel"!.
I suspect it has something to do with his specific (i!.e!. Baroque) style of writing, but you would have to check up on the extensive information on Wikipedia!.
Good luck!Www@Enter-QA@Com
I agree with Delicio!. I would assume the your professor made up this term, to describe the generic recycling of stock forms, often by hacks!. Just because Pachelbel wrote a LOT of music, that does not mean it is any good - I bought some other chamber works of his, on a chance - they are seldom played, except as background music at chamber music gigs!.
The infamous canon is just that - a canon, and the bass progression over which is it written is obviated in the cello and harpsichord!. ALL canon must have a repeating structure underneath - otherwise, they would not work out!.
Wikipedia is hardly an authoritative source - people can bloviate on any topic, and if their command of the language is decent, reader assume that the poster has some credence!. 50-50!.
Good counterpoint lends itself to the addition of other voices!. Many unaccompanied works have has *ghosts* written for them - accompaniments realized by someone, when we ALL hear the harmony in our minds, anyway!. And what about ALL those assignments in the 18th century, to write an additional part over something form the WTC!? People look at the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria as if it were divinely inspired - it was pretty much a homework assignment, although it ended up being an *A*, I am sure - one of the few to have universal recognition, too!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The infamous canon is just that - a canon, and the bass progression over which is it written is obviated in the cello and harpsichord!. ALL canon must have a repeating structure underneath - otherwise, they would not work out!.
Wikipedia is hardly an authoritative source - people can bloviate on any topic, and if their command of the language is decent, reader assume that the poster has some credence!. 50-50!.
Good counterpoint lends itself to the addition of other voices!. Many unaccompanied works have has *ghosts* written for them - accompaniments realized by someone, when we ALL hear the harmony in our minds, anyway!. And what about ALL those assignments in the 18th century, to write an additional part over something form the WTC!? People look at the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria as if it were divinely inspired - it was pretty much a homework assignment, although it ended up being an *A*, I am sure - one of the few to have universal recognition, too!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Pachelbel did not invent any form, nor is there any kind of form known as a 'Pachelbel'!. Your information must be wrong!. The form of the 'canon' had been around for hundreds of years before Pachelbel lived, as well as the forms he used in his organ music (for which it would be much better he were remembered, rather than that rather twee, overplayed Canon)!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
never heard of it being a form of music!. Pachelbel is just a composer as far as I know of and the form is Classical!. I have taken music classes and that term has never came up!. sorry im no help!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I thought that Pachelbel was the name of a composer of a famous canon!. But I could be wrong!.Www@Enter-QA@Com