Thursday, September 13, 2007

Canon in D


Pachelbel's Canon also known as Canon in D major, is the most famous piece of music by Johann Pachelbel. It was written in or around 1680
The piece is commonly played at weddings and is frequently present on miscellaneous classical music compilation. Here is an amazing asian child paying it on the piano with amazing performance
One of the all-time top ten most watched videos on YouTube is guitar which has been viewed over 27 million times. Posted online in December 2005, it consists of a rock music version of Pachelbel's Canon performed on electric guitar by the young man Justin Havinga.The arrangement used in the video was written by the Taiwanese guitarist JerryC and is called Canon Rock.

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