I finlly found my coffee stained copy of the Pachelbel Canon in D and scanned it as a .jpg. If anyone ( who has not already received it) is interested, send me an e-mail, and I will send you a copy.
This was an arrangement for 3 tenor recorders, which ought to work smashingly on low D whistles. Sorry, this is real sheet music only-- no ABCs or tab. There are lots of scary looking 32nd notes, but since the piece is played pretty slowly, they are not really bad.
Due to many responses, and the difficulty of responding with attachments via AOLs mail interface, I am working with Serpent to have the .jpg posted here or somewhere convenient so people can access it directly. If you have not yet received the attachments directly from me, keep watching Chiff and Fipple. I will save your e-mails, and if this does not work, I WILL send them to you-- thanks for your patience
Paul: Really great stuff, but I cannot read how many measures the canon should be played before the 2nd and 3rd parts begin. It looks like every 4 measures. Is this correct? Thanks for the music.
Best.
Byll
I don’t know if there’s any similar product in the amazon.com or .co.uk etc. The last track is played by Harry Allen (Ten. sax)and is improvised. I wonder if someone has done this tune on a whistle, or on Irish flute?
Nope, it’s every 2. It starts out with two measures of that bass line, then whistle 1 comes in. 2 measures later, whistle 2, etc. With any luck, everyone ends up at the same time, different measures. I’m thinkin that guitar chords would be a terrific accompaniament for whistles, preferably low Ds.
I rehearsed last night with the guitarist that I’m playing Canon in D with for a wedding. I wrote the main 8 bar melodies out for myself. She plays the chords on guitar.
Because the chord progression remains constant, I’m able to jump to whatever 8 bar melody I want to, and the music still works. This means that I can lengthen or shorten the song at will.
It also takes the worry out of how to end the song when the bride reaches the altar - we can just finish the phrase we’re on then play a fat D chord.
Very true-- you can even leave out the scary looking 32nd note parts if you want, but don’t do it. Since the piece is so slow, they are REALLY not hard to play and are some of the nicest spots in the whole thing.
And here’s another. I think this one’s got “Canon” as well. Amazon.co.uk
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EDF, can you “refuse” downloading the JPN letters and instead “choose to view the site in”..say, UNICODE etc? I think this way you’ll see some weird boxes and slashes, faces and monsters but still the numbers, alphabets and photos will be visible (I think, it worked in pcs in the UK). Does your pc automatically detects the file necessary to view a certain sites and/or is the download obligatory? hmm
Anyway, here’s the list for the Air on the G String 100% CD!!!
BWV1068 : Le Petit Band
BWV1068 : Micala Petri (bf) Rals Hannibal (g)
BWV1068 : Richard Schonherz (syn) Peter Scott (g)
BWV1068 : Virgil Fox (og)
BWV1068 : James Goldway (fl)
BWV1068 : Eugen Cicero Trip
BWV1068 : Richard Stolzman (cl) Bill Douglas (p) Jeremy Wall(syn) Eddie Gometh (b)
BWV1068 : Isao Tomita (syn)
BWV1068 : London Symphonic Orchestra
and another
10.BWV1068 : Shunnya Etoh (vn) Reiko Etoh (p)
yet anoter
11.BWV1068 : Harry Allen (ts)
I used to own another CD like this of which listing was totally different, though, I can recommend the renditions by #6 and #11.
Well, maybe I’m missing something; but when I downloaded the two sheets from serpent I only see the melody and not the other parts. At the end it says “for 3 tenor recorders” but where are the other parts? The left side of each line is cut off at the clef mark - so maybe someting is missing?
Each player plays the same part, just they start two measures apart. Kind of like a round. At the end, there are three fermadas, spaced two measures apart. The first player plays to the end, the second stops two from the end and the third player stops four from the end. The two bass line measures on the second page are played by a fourth instrument and repeat ad nauseum.
There should have been a third document that came with the music, that explained how to play it.
Argh!! Viola clef!
Sorry my playing instructions didn’t come across on the .jpg. I did indicate where each whistle starts and ends. Thanks to whoever did the explanation here.
The arrangement I posted was by a superb recorder maker and musician who REALLY knows his Baroque music. You can be sure that it is quite authentic. If you can find two friends who can read the music ( or one friend and a tape recorder) you will be amazed at how wonderful this piece is. The canonical nature of it can’t easily be appreciated by listening to the more usual baroque orchestral version you hear everywhere.
