# Movies that have used Canon in D Major

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**Created:** [May 23, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-used-canon-in-d-major/305113 "2005-05-23T16:43:17Z")\
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> [@Locrian](#):
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> I’ll be hearing that in my brain for a few hours today. 😃

Maybe we need a thread “Music guaranteed to get an earworm out of your head” Personally, mine is the [Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila](https://youtu.be/vLI6LRjhg_U?t=14) by Mikhail Glinka. Also known as the theme to _Cabin Pressure_ (ah, John Finnemore again…).  
(Or “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”)

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**Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-used-canon-in-d-major/305113/22 "2018-11-18T19:23:23Z")

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It’s a long time since I watched _Gallipoli_, but I think the Canon is played as the Australians row ashore in a night mist to their base camp. It seemed appropriate.

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**Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-used-canon-in-d-major/305113/23 "2018-11-18T19:41:32Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> It’s a long time since I watched _Gallipoli_, but I think the Canon is played as the Australians row ashore in a night mist to their base camp. It seemed appropriate.

Oops, no, it’s an Adagion

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**Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-used-canon-in-d-major/305113/24 "2018-11-18T20:10:26Z")

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> **[Johann Pachelbel - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0655341/)**
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> Johann Pachelbel. Soundtrack: Dude, Where's My Car?. Johann Pachelbel was born on 1 September 1653 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire \[now Germany\]. Johann was a composer, known for Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Nothing to Lose (1997) and Fantastic...

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**Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-used-canon-in-d-major/305113/25 "2018-11-18T20:48:31Z")

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> [@JohnT](#):
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> Of course it’s repetitive… it’s a _canon_! :smack:
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> 😉

Comment of the week!

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**Post date:** [November 18, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-have-used-canon-in-d-major/305113/26 "2018-11-18T22:05:18Z")

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> [@Knorf](#):
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> Johann Pachelbel’s **Canon and Gigue in D major** is _not_ a song. It is, generically, a piece of music, specificially a canon and gigue. (Imagine!) ]

[It can be.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJDTid6L2tQ)

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