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Sheet Music: ScoreThirteen divisions on the Ground Bass of Pachelbel's Canon : for piano / Michael Hannan.by Michael Hannan (2009)
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The origin of this piece can be traced back to my early years as
a music academic when I taught keyboard harmony and improvisation
at The University of Sydney. One of the skills in the curriculum
was improvising "divisions" on a ground bass. Here the term
division principally refers to different rhythmic groupings
although it can also refer to particular textural ideas such as
combining scale-based melodic motion with arpeggios.
The baseline of Pachelbel's Canon in D was one of the harmonic
structures employed for this improvisation task.
Later I wrote a rather irreverent electronic parody of
Pachelbel's Canon in D as a work for modern dance theatre (I
called it The Hannan Canon) but the recording of this work got
lost in a Lismore flood.
The popularity of Pachelbel's Canon in D was reinforced to me
throughout my time teaching composition at university. In almost
every semester there was a least one work presented in the
examination folios which had a clear reference to either the
melody or the chords of this evergreen.
Published by: Wirripang [979 0 720167 97 8] — 1 score (5p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium — AMEB Grade 5
First performance by Fred Cole at Michael Hannan - retrospective (D Block Studio 129, Southern Cross University, Lismore campus) on 14 Nov 2019
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979 0 720167 97 8
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