Pachelbel's Music Box Canon in D

2009-10-05

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Pachelbel's Canon in D, arranged for Music Box! Three music boxes play the same strip of paper in sequence to create the canon, while the basso continuo is played by a fourth music box playing a loop. Visually see the structure of Pachelbel's Canon.

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Canon for three music boxes, plus music-box continuo
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After 2 measures, the 1st violin starts playing the canon.
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The 2nd box starts, playing the same music that the first box played 2 measures earlier.
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Here you can hear the 3rd box enter.
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Johann Pachelbel wrote the piece in the Baroque Period, in around 1680.
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Now let's follow one theme through the three music boxes...
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So the music-box canon ends here.
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Of course, the basso continuo could go on all day...
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So here it ends... thank you for listening!
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