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Pachelbel's Canon in D: Need for Speed or Take it Slow?

Relenzo2

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Need for speed or Take it Slow?  

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  1. 1. Need for speed or Take it Slow?

    • First one to slow down loses! - Toad. Seriously.
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    • Take it Slow! -Battlecruiser commanders. You know who your are
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Relenzo2 Newbie

Relenzo2

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Title explains. I think personally that played at the correct fast speed, well, it is smashing (which is why you need good renditions to paly it yourself!).

 

I partly just wanted to see how many people would answey this thing.

Det. Bart Lasiter Newbie

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  Relenzo2 said:
Title explains. I think personally that played at the correct fast speed, well, it is smashing (which is why you need good renditions to paly it yourself!).

 

I partly just wanted to see how many people would answey this thing.

I dunno what this is so I voted for the one you didn't.
The Doctor Newbie

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He's asking a question about a piece of music. Should Pachelbel's Canon in D major, a piece written by Johann Pachelbel in the mid 19th century, be played at the traditional slower tempo, or at a faster tempo?

 

Personally, I think the song is dull and uninteresting at either tempo, whether it be 35/40 or 235/240 - as is a good portion of Baroque music. I much prefer music from the Classical and Romantic periods, myself.

milo Newbie

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The only rendition of Pachelbel's canon I've ever really enjoyed was on the electric guitar:

 

 

He plays it some-what fast-ish so yeah.

Darth333 Newbie

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  The Doctor said:
He's asking a question about a piece of music. Should Pachelbel's Canon in D major, a piece written by Johann Pachelbel in the mid 19th century end of the 17th century...

 

 

fixed ;)

 

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whether it be 35/40 or 235/240 - as is a good portion of Baroque music
Huh? I have no idea where you got that :confused:
The Doctor Newbie

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  Darth333 said:
fixed ;)

XD Wow, major error on my part. My bad. XD I knew it was the mid 1800s 1600, but for some reason my silly mind told me that was 19th, not 17th century. XD

 

"My head's jammed full of stuff - I need a bigger head!"

 

  Darth333 said:
Huh? I have no idea where you got that :confused:

The tempos I gave were meant to apply only to Palchelbel's Canon, not Baroque music in general. What I meant was, whether the song be played at a tempo of 35/40 or 235/240, I find it dull and boring, just as I view most Baroque music as dull and boring. A clarification error on my part. My bad again. XD

Arcesious Newbie

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It depends on the way the sound is used, and what kind of sound it is. For example:

 

John Williams' 'Love Pledge and the Arena' is better slow, as it keeps with a nice, slow, building up, march-into-battle sort of music, whilst his 'Battle of the Heroes' and 'Duel of the Fates' are better played faster, because a slower tempo will eliminate the speed and drama ascribed to them in the battles in the movies... I'm neutral, as I can't decide on this particular peice. It's fine to me either way, but it still seems dull...

Darth333 Newbie

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  The Doctor said:
XD Wow, major error on my part. My bad. XD I knew it was the mid 1800s, but for some reason my silly mind told me that was 19th, not 17th century. XD
the mid 1800s are indeed part of the 19th century...17th century= 1600s. Pachelbel was born around 1650 and the Baroque period in music extends from the early 1600s (with Monteverdi's Orfeo) to +- 1750 with Bach and Haendel amongst others.

 

 

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"My head's jammed full of stuff - I need a bigger head!"
Looks like it's not your day :D

 

As for me, I have heard that piece of music way too often for my liking and 99% of the time the interpretation is a total "massacre" (I dislike "sirupy" music ). Anyway, I don't care about Pachelbel's music. However, Bach is one of my favorites when I play piano (with 20th century music like Prokoviev's).

The Doctor Newbie

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  Darth333 said:
the mid 1800s are indeed part of the 19th century...17th century= 1600s. Pachelbel was born around 1650 and the Baroque period in music extends from the early 1600s (with Monteverdi's Orfeo) to +- 1750 with Bach and Haendel amongst others.

... and again, a careless error on my part. I meant to type mid 1600s, not 1800s. I'm just... I didn't... I need to... God I'm tired...

 

XD I'm just gonna stop talking now, as I can't seem to get anything right on this. XD

 

 

  Darth333 said:
Looks like it's not your day :D

No, it really isn't. :xp:

Mace MacLeod Newbie

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Oh, that Pachelbel's Canon in D! Right! Of course! :eyeraise:

Didn't Disturbed do a cover of that on their last CD...?

 

Seriously though, this must be a piano player question. Although the melody does sound vaguely familiar, I had never heard of Pachelbel before in my life. With "Need for Speed" in the OP, I figured that maybe it was a video game question...? Or something...? Anyway.

 

Now I've heard it. Sounds like an elementary schoolkid's piano recital material.

Darth333 Newbie

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  Mace MacLeod said:
Seriously though, this must be a piano player question... Sounds like an elementary schoolkid's piano recital material.
No, not a piano thing, although there's an arrangement in almost every beginner book ( :( ) the original was for strings.

 

 

That piece has been "incorporated" in countless of music pieces/songs of all kinds since it's creation.

 

See for yourself: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

Relenzo2 Newbie

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Well, that got answered fast.

 

  The Doctor said:
He's asking a question about a piece of music. Should Pachelbel's Canon in D major, a piece written by Johann Pachelbel in the mid 19th century, be played at the traditional slower tempo, or at a faster tempo?

 

Personally, I think the song is dull and uninteresting at either tempo, whether it be 35/40 or 235/240 - as is a good portion of Baroque music. I much prefer music from the Classical and Romantic periods, myself.

 

I'm glad that someone knows what I'm talking about, mad that you dare insult Johan, Pachelble, or the key of D. Well, okay, he only ever wrote one good song as far as I can tell, but it's inspired, and there is bloody well plenty of good Barouqe or even Baroqe music. You don't have to like that Chopanish thing to like classical! But I like it kind of because, as Schroeder once said, "You never know how Chopin is going to affect someone."

 

BTW: I'm most CERTAINLY not saying "play it at 90 MPH or as fast as you can". No, sir. I'm saying that it's good with a little more zip than most Carnergie'ers would put into it. Kind of like how you dislike "syrupy" music. I guess I've heard it so many times that going faster makes it more interesting.

 

  Darth333 said:
No, not a piano thing, although there's an arrangement in almost every beginner book ( :( ) the original was for strings.

 

 

That piece has been "incorporated" in countless of music pieces/songs of all kinds since it's creation.

 

See for yourself: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

 

Yes, even Twisted Sister used a bit of Johan's music there. The first "real" copy of Canon in D I got was just the string voices smooshed togther. There are four of them, and I have, like most mostly-humans, two hands. Impossibel to play!

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  milo said:
The only rendition of Pachelbel's canon I've ever really enjoyed was on the electric guitar:

 

 

He plays it some-what fast-ish so yeah.

 

 

Personally, I prefer

Slow tempo with electric guitars and full orchestration.
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  \ said:
BTW: I'm most CERTAINLY not saying "play it at 90 MPH or as fast as you can". No, sir. I'm saying that it's good with a little more zip than most Carnergie'ers would put into it. Kind of like how you dislike "syrupy" music. I guess I've heard it so many times that going faster makes it more interesting.
The speed is not so important to me as is the passion with which something is played.

 

My son played at orchestra festival a few months ago. The middle and high schoolers played O Fortuna. I actually enjoyed the middle schoolers' performance in that piece better--while they didn't have as technically advanced music as the high schoolers, they played it with a lot more passion, as if they could really 'feel' the music and enjoy performing it.

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Which reminds me, has anyone heard "Classically Beetles". It's Beetles songs remixed and played by the New York Orchestra. Pure Genius. Pure music. Pure awsome.

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