Rob Paravonian’s Pachelbel Rant.

• Patrick
  December 23rd, 2006 at 11:47 pm

  great video, there’s nothing like classical musical humor. it’s spelled wrong though, needs an “l.” feel free to delete this comment once the spelling is changed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbel’s_Canon

• Alex
  December 24th, 2006 at 12:11 am

  Fixed - thanks Patrick!

• Aleki
  December 24th, 2006 at 12:49 am

  Yup, that was me in elementary packing around my cello… better than my brother though, he played upright bass.

• Nicholas Dollak
  December 24th, 2006 at 5:53 am

  I’ll have to check out the video at a later date (56K modem), but I laughed when I read the description. Yep, that darn piece consists of 3 chords in a very repetitive cycle — virtually identical to about 90% of ’50s rock-n-roll (and a lot of pop music today as well). I think I found its minimalist style interesting when I first heard it, but the novelty wore off very quickly. I think I would still find it an interesting experiment today if it weren’t so blasted popular!

  One interesting aspect to the piece: near the end, it strays away from the three chords, augmenting some of them slightly (at least in the melody). The harmonies generated in the process are quite beautiful, and would not really be heard in other music for about a century, when Beethoven used them.

• Amused
  December 24th, 2006 at 7:50 am

  Great stuff thanks Alex!

• johnald
  August 24th, 2007 at 8:45 am

  badly cheesey guy

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