# Pachelbel's Canon in D Major \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434 "2011-01-13T08:18:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/41 "2011-01-14T15:45:00Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Another former cellist checking in, who wonders what evil bastard of a cellist murdered Pachelbel’s mother, to prompt him to write this horrid revenge. Well, if you’d taken up the violin like your mother wanted, you wouldn’t be in this position, now would you? 😃 (Just kidding, I love the cello the bestest. But there are some boring cello parts, I believe you! Like singing alto, it’s all support and the music would sound terrible without it, but you’ve either got weird intervals or the same damn droning thing for 7 minutes.) ---
**Author:** ![Xanthippos\_Redux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Xanthippos\_Redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xanthippos_Redux)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/42 "2011-01-14T15:49:33Z")
I absolutely love this song. Not to hijack, but I played French Horn for about 12 years, and when I wasn’t playing off-notes for rhythm on some piece designed for trumpet and woodwinds, I was playing Die Mesitersinger. Makes my skin crawl to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![williambaskerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/43 "2011-01-14T18:53:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It could be worse. He could be Albinoni. Or Barber. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/44 "2011-01-14T19:02:14Z")
Anyone who listens to Classic FM in the UK soon becomes sick of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, Grieg’s Piano Concerto (the famous movement, naturally), the Lark Ascending, the Four Seasons, and various other usual suspects. I reckon you could fit most of their playlist on to a modestly-sized CD rack, or one iPod. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/45 "2011-01-14T23:08:18Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I like the chorale version at the beginning of the movie “Ordinary People”. This movie is why I fell in love with it; now I can barely stand it. I specifically requested that the string trio at my wedding NOT play it. AND THEY PLAYED IT! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/46 "2011-01-14T23:55:38Z")
The examples would not be complete with out TSO’s **Christmas Canon**. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4cP26ndrmtg/maxresdefault.jpg "Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon (Official Music Video) [HD]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg) ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/47 "2011-01-15T00:00:06Z")
I found [this version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oex4S3vPKR4) a couple of years ago, not sure if anyone here will like it, but here it is. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/48 "2011-01-15T00:53:26Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > The examples would not be complete with out TSO’s **Christmas Canon**. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg&ob=av3el](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg&ob=av3el) Nor was it incomplete. See post #34. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/49 "2011-01-15T08:32:36Z")
“Classical Westport” was a record store in Kansas City, MO. The cash register had a cartoon taped to it. A man is chained to the wall of a dungeon, and the speech balloon from a large speaker on the wall opposite is saying “Now, once again, for your listening pleasure, Pachelbel’s Canon”. It was titled “Prisoner of Pachelbel”. Update: [Found it!](http://www.cartoonbank.com/1981/prisoner-sits-looking-worn-and-tortured-as-voice-comes-over-loud-speaker-and-says-for-your-li/invt/127798/) Not exactly as I remember it, but it was from 1981! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/50 "2011-01-15T16:46:26Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#): > > That’s more than a nitpick, it’s a correction that should probably be made in the thread title. > > And yeah… it’s overplayed and the cello part sucks, but damn it’s pretty. Good point. I’m fixing it. [Previously titled “Pachelbel’s Canon in D Minor”] \*\*Ellen Cherry \*\* ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/51 "2011-01-15T16:55:54Z")
It’s not as overplayed as Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, but at least Mozart has another 600 or so opuses that get into the rotation. Pachelbel’s Vespers for choir is an amazing piece, but he will forever be known as THE one hit wonder of classical music (even though the definitive one hit wonder is Paul Dukas, for Sorceror’s Apprentice, mainly because his will ordered all copies of his compositions burned upon his death, and that was one of the few that survived). ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/52 "2011-01-16T06:43:22Z")
Pachelbel’s Chaconne in f is pretty good and more durable than the Canon. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434/53 "2011-01-17T10:42:19Z")
> [@williambaskerville](#): > > Or Barber. Barber at least gets some of his other pieces played. Albinoni didn’t even write the one piece attributed to him that gets any radio play - the Adagio in G was written in 1945 by Remo Giazotto “based on a fragment by Albinoni” (or not, depending on the version of the story you believe). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pachelbels-canon-in-d-major-edited-title/567434.md?page=2)