What is this tune?

[Kamino_Neko]

@panache45

Could be worse. I once heard someone refer to it as the “Taco Bell Canon.”

Funny…I was thinking a little earlier that a Mexican-style arrangement of Canon in D called Yo Quiero Pachelbel would be fun.

[Cardinal]

I went to a wedding Saturday, and I thought, "Really? Palcelbel? Haven’t we had enough of that?

[Frylock]

@Tengu

Sure is. (Another Youtube vid.)

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-

[mangeorge]

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.

[mangeorge]

@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.

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.

[Hodge]

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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

@mangeorge

Okay. So, does the tune actually do that?

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.

[mangeorge]

“Summer”
Keep it up, kiddo.

[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”.

[mangeorge]

@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”.

Dang! I remember that jingle, I don’t remember how it goes.
Which melody? Canon or Summer?