# What is this tune? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030 "2007-07-25T00:00:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030/21 "2007-07-25T07:24:31Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] Could be worse. I once heard someone refer to it as the “Taco Bell Canon.” [/QUOTE] Funny…I was thinking a little earlier that a Mexican-style arrangement of Canon in D called Yo Quiero Pachelbel would be fun. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030/22 "2007-07-25T08:34:20Z")
I went to a wedding Saturday, and I thought, "Really? Palcelbel? Haven’t we had enough of that? ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030/23 "2007-07-25T09:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] [Sure is.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM) (Another Youtube vid.) [/QUOTE] Woa, I saw that guy in concert in a very small venue back in my college days. I was sitting like four feet away from him. I remember I liked him, but that’s all I remember. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030/24 "2007-07-25T13:01:14Z")
I wondered about the name of the piece, which I only knew to mean law, or rule. That didn’t seem to fit, so I m-w’d it; > [@](#): > > 5 [Late Greek kanOn, from Greek, model] : a contrapuntal musical composition in which each successively entering voice presents the initial theme usually transformed in a strictly consistent way Okay. So, does the tune actually do that? More fodder for the compost heap that is my mind. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030/25 "2007-07-25T13:13:18Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] Eh, the kid’s OK. I certainly wouldn’t discourage him, but it sounds very mechanical, although he has his technique down. If this were a 25-year-old guy playing, I’d be a bit more critical. [/QUOTE] Yeah, his skill and enthusiasm are there. The arrangement is his. If he keeps that and smoothes it out with experience and developes his own style he’ll be really good. I liked the way he came in with the recording (cello?), then took it away. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030/26 "2007-07-25T14:13:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > 5 [Late Greek kanOn, from Greek, model] : a contrapuntal musical composition in which each successively entering voice presents the initial theme usually transformed in a strictly consistent way [QUOTE=mangeorge] Okay. So, does the tune actually do that? [/quote] Pretty much. 24 freaking times, IIRC. Although it’s probably more properly called a passacaglia rather than a canon. A passacaglia is characterized by a repeating, unchanging ground bass pattern over which themes or variations are played. This is what drives a lot of musicians nuts about the piece, especially bass players. Endlessly repeating the same descending bassline of 7 or 8 notes can be boring as hell. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030/27 "2007-07-26T00:46:35Z")
[“Summer”](http://youtube.com/watch?v=GxplDa3M5Io) Keep it up, kiddo. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030/28 "2007-07-26T01:56:06Z")
Part of this melody is very similar to the part of the Burger King jingle that goes “Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us”. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030/29 "2007-07-26T02:26:30Z")
[QUOTE=DaveRaver] Part of this melody is very similar to the part of the Burger King jingle that goes “Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us”. [/QUOTE] Dang! I remember that jingle, I don’t remember how it goes. Which melody? Canon or Summer? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune/413030.md?page=1)