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If you have any of the following books you might like to assemble them, but they are not necessary for the class:
Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel - any edition - the more the merrier.
You might also like to hear some of the zillion versions on youtube of it played on various instruments, and post any especially good ones for your fellow classmates to listen to.
There will be two separate sessions that are repeats of each other. One on the 12th, and for those who can't make that, one on the 26th.
Review with excursions - the chords inherent to a key
using them to vary the haromony against a common melody (non-pachelbel)
other modes, and why we might ply a C natural in the canon in D.
reviewing melodies - our own, little variations on melody as opposed to the harmony, study the score,
canon talk
canon game - briefly
play along with a recording - the canon
the canon game - internet style - group view
reviewing all the ways to play
how to transpose chords - some serious theory -
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Here is your canon game recording:
How to play: set yourself up in key of D. Start the recording. Don't preview, just start. After I've played the first set, you echo it. But while you're doing that, I'm onto the next thing. So notice that while you're echoing the first, then continue. If you get lost, just let another go by and continue through to the end.
Of course you can also use it as a play along background instead of the first one.
Then when you've done it a few times, you can stop and study what I've done or use it however you like. It's a good test for the end of the course!!
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look at the melody and see how it fits the chord
now that we know the chords well, can we make our own melody?
one person chords, one to play melody - around the circle
look at other tunes using the same progression.
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some recordings
the real deal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0
some other melodies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFrsBMXipDk
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this one might be nice to play along with - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJRdLZyOU4w
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Your assignment - make a little recording of the made up melodies along at least one of the patterns we learned for melodic work, and add anything else you've done.
here's one just sent : Barb S
How does the chord business work in practice
The letter name can be "realized" by playing any note in the chord.
Finding the 3rd and the 5ths from the root.
a 3rd can be a 3rd but an octave higher. (as can any interval)
play along with original 3 violin and a cello version
with a harpsichord or organ is even better. These continuo instruments are what we are imitating when we play an accompaniment with our left hand
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If you find good versions to listen to, and play along with, coupld you post them in the comments, please?
The chord scheme -
Which came first - the chicken or the egg... the scale or the chords
Different ways to name chords -
all the chords in a scale
which ones Pachelbel uses.
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what does it mean when you say a D chord? a I chord? a vi chord? how do you play them?
How chords match melodies -
Be open to surprises -
the art of exploration...
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chords in other canons - how that pattern, of necessity repeats...
recording of the last 15 minutes of the class
backing track is below the class listings. Scroll down
June 10
Intro to Pachelbel's Canon and Gigue
The chord scheme -
Which came first - the chicken or the egg...
Different ways to name chords -
all the chords in a scale
which ones Pachelbel uses.
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How chords match melodies -
A new line of music to play with the basses.
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Here are 3 versions we can use, but you can also use whatever you have - Sylvia Woods, Susann Macdonald, many others. (but in the key of D)
Mostly we'll just work with the ideas, but it is helpful to study a score when you're preparing for a class. Use whichever one of these looks the most accessible to you. (harp 1 and 2 are very alike but can be studied to see the canon in action)
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I see I did a terrible job as sticking to the game plan today :) We'll be more theoretical next time!!!