Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel

You know, when I think about Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D I tend to get slightly teary eyed, but yet, a smile grazes my mug and makes my bright day almost intolerably bright, to where I can’t even fight the feeling any more (as I have forgotten what I have started fighting for). Do not get me incorrect, as Bach’s Prelude in C Major is like so totally to die for, but it is Pachelbel’s Canon in D that really makes the hair grow on my scrotum, and it is a kind of hair that is easy to pull and tug, but yet it is not tender, no my friends, it is simply true.

So, when you listen to this brilliant piece of the Baroque era Classical realm, I want you to say a little prayer for me and wash your bed sheets real good this time. It is enchanting music, and no doubt was an influence on the High Priest of Baroque, Johann Sebastian Bach himself, as Bach came a little later after Pachelbel, as the case might be. This is a sort of sound that simply delights the ears as it creates internal movement, and internal conversation of all of the known and unknown senses, in short, it is something wondrous.

Back to Bach, sure, some may argue that Pachelbel was not an influence, but I tend to entirely disagree. And what exactly is a canon you ask? Well, it was quite commonplace during the Baroque era, so allow my pretty little tush to explain a few musical factoids unto your own rotten bottom: Basically, we are looking at counterpoint with a primary melody, and two or more backing melodies that essentially dovetail that main melodic bit and compliment it quite nicely.

You’ve probably heard this at a wedding, you goofy little whale penis, you:



Hello, it was Johann Pachelbel’s only canon!