Johann Pachelbel was a musical composer in the late 1600’s.
He is best known for his Canon in D.
The chord progression of the canon (“I V vi iii IV I IV V”) is one of the most common in many popular songs produced since.
Comedian Rob Paravonian’s rant about Pachelbel is humourous and educational when in comes to understanding the deju vu syndrome of hit music and how we can look to the long deceased composer as a true patron of the parallels.
Crosslinks:
That was brilliant. Personally, I quite like the piece. But what the hell. It has been used by virtually everyone at least once. I think its a key problem with the days when music was composed strictly according to the rules of musical theory. There’s a technical, mathematical way of making music sound ‘lovely’. Anyway, nowadays anyone who picks up a guitar can randomly strum chords until they think it sounds ‘lovely’ and then they’ve got a piece written by someone else…they just think they’re being creative.
Hmm
Vive le créativité
I enjoyed that humorous Pachelbel guitar performing…
you inspired me
to upload a short mp3-file
for guitar beginners,
C G, Am Em, F C, F G ://
http://frizztext.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/gibson-guitar-pachelbel/
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