Johann Pachelbel

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[sighs] Okay, Baby Dennis, what are you gonna play for everyone? Pachelbel? Mozart? Beethoven?

Baby Dennis wrote a song.

Oh, no.

I would say, "This is great.

I love the fact that, you know, the, that Bach's Pachelbel Canon" [laughs] And, uh, sorry, not, no, um, not Bach.

Yeah, no, not Bach, but Pachelbel's Canon, "has influenced all these different kinds of music." I mean, I wanna t- I wanna play Mozart at the late-night comedy club and get people on side with it.

I wanna try and, you know, draw people in to these sort of subjects and areas of, that I find interesting and funny and take people along with it, and that's the challenge that I set myself.

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It's like Pachelbel...

What's Pachelbel's Canon?

Pachelbel's Canon.

Like that?

Yeah, yeah.

God, in his great goodness, bestowed upon me this divine gift, and I showed my appreciation by a life's devotion to it.

i was born at eisner in sixteen ninety five in my tenth year i was left an orphan and went to live with my elder brother johann christoph who held the position of organist the family profession at at the time of my birth there were about thirty of my relatives in responsible positions as organists in saxony and thuringia for several generations my ancestors had been very musical but it was left to me to make the name of bach famous in the history of music my brother christoph was a painstaking teacher and he had a faithful little pupil but according to his idea a too ambitious one i could soon play all my lessons by heart and aspired to more advanced music He had in his possession a manuscript volume containing pieces by Froberger, Kerl, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Christoph's old master, and other composers of the day, which I longed to play, but which my brother would not allow me to touch.

How was I to secure the treasure? have you ever thought my dear friends that if we have a longing for something we may finally by steady perseverance overcome all obstacles and accomplish our point you shall see how i gained mine When I found that my brother would not yield to my entreaties, I decided to have the book at any cost.

When all in the house were fast asleep, I would creep downstairs and manage with my little hands to extract it from its supposed safe quarters.

It was first published in 1676 and the tune in 1690, and from here it has developed a notable musical legacy.

Johann Pachelbel composed a, an organ partita based on this tune in 1683.

Bach drew upon it heavily on this hymn, using it across several cantatas, and then Catherine Winkworth translated into English in 1865 under the title, "Whatever My God Ordains Is Right." Agreeable to the themes of Trinity 15, that is to say, total trust in God's fatherly care and freedom from worldly anxiety, the hymn amplifies the message from the Holy Gospel.

The hymn mirrors Jesus' teaching not to be anxious, and it does so stanza by stanza, confessing that "God will never deceive me," I'm quoting the hymn now, "and suffers not to do harm to me." Singing this hymn is an exercise in replacing anxiety with reliance on God's goodwill in Christ Jesus, that the Lord has good for us and does good to us.

1-2-3, 1-2-3. so that it feels like a twice as long triple meter one and two and three and one two three one two three one and two and three and like that and then we listened to one piece that was called a ground and this was very cool that we had that there because the ground is a form that later became known as the ground base and there were actually several different types of ground base forms including the Chaconne and the Passacaglia.

And Pachelbel's famous Canon in D is actually one of those.

It's not really a Canon, but it is maybe a Passacaglia, which means a repeated bass line.

That's what a ground is or ground bass is just this repeated bass line over which kind of variations or different kinds of melodies work together.

It's not light listening.

And not to take away from light listening, I mean, Pachelbel Canon was popular for a reason.

Pachelbel Canon is actually just a slightly more complex version of that 1564, but it does travel a little bit.

Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.