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  • Original instrument! Good!

  • Excellent work on the video

  • I say chaps, is it such a splendid, pleasant day to have a cup of tea in the morn?

    ಠ_ರೃ

  • @indgiu well some people just hear it. it's amazing. i am not able to recognize the key by ear, but I recognize it if I play along this peace on the piano

  • My 5 month old daughter loves not only listening to the piece, but also the animation of the score. It really fascinates her and you can see her arms moving somewhat in time with the music and just a sense of awe she has. Thank you for this.

  • forgive my ignorance, but how can people recognize the key of the piece by ear?

  • @indgiu If you've studied or played music, you can tell from which notes are sharp or flat. Plus, certain keys have a "tone" to them.. C to me always feels very clean, G is upbeat. B flat or A are kind of somber, in a way.

  • I hate this song so much... >cello player

  • @aninjainatree As a former bass player (who would fill in if the cello was absent)- it is a trifle dull for us. Half note after half note after half note...

    As usual, the violins/violas get ALL the fun. LOL.

  • There is one instrument missing in the sheet music. It appears in the animation, but not in the score

  • @diegosgc That's right: it's not in the score (because it was improvised during the performance, not composed by Pachelbel).

  • @smalin Ahh

  • This is a bit fast, isnt it?!

  • @Fantini31 No.

  • @smalin Yes it is.

  • @Fantini31

    not sure how you thought this was fast?

  • No words... Amazing! Pachelbel for the rest of my life will be GENIUS!

  • I love the way at 2:20 the violin graphics seem to form a heart <3

  • I'd like to thank you for these video, smalin. I will subscribe to you first chance I get!

  • i just noticed that this is actually being played in Db

  • @osterianio Well, yes and no. Pitch standards have changed between when this was written and now. The instruments are tuned to the way they were when the piece was written. So, they're playing it in D (that is, if you watched them, saw where their fingers were on the keyboard and fingerboards, you'd see that they were playing it in D), but it's the "D" that Pachelbel used (or, at least, that people living back then used).

  • I started to play along with this on my tablet piano and freaked out because it was a half step lower. I lost my mind a bit until I eventually looked at the FAQ in the description.

  • About two minutes into it, two of the violins sound like they are playing catch with the melody. However the score below shows it staying with a single violin. Later the score shows both violins playing (and not unison) but the 'sound' is the same. Is the score the same arrangement that is being played? Or does this just show that I'm a rank beginner at reading music?

  • Can I make a request? :

    Bach - Brandenburg Concerto #2 1st movement.

    I looked amongst your videos and could not find this one, and it is my favourite.

  • @TheLastMyztery If you want to help get that video made, figure out how to get permission from Rinaldo Alessandrini to use his recording.

  • Who is your favourite composer?

  • @Eamesam Bach, probably.

  • Smalin, your visuals are wonderful, and add to the beauty of the music. Thank you for all these pieces...they must have taken rather a long time.

  • for my werdding day my walk down the ale to my men and future someday 

  • @bellapat13 For my werdding day, I'll make sure I can't walk anywhere because of the ale! :D

  • The elysian fields do smell of lilacs in spring.

  • SYBELLIUS !

  • omg i had to do the violin 4 part in my schools orchestra and it was HELL even if i didnt messup if someone else did we had to start the whole section over! :(

  • It is beautiful!

  • Love it!

  • Wonderful work. The thing I like best about showing Pachelbel's canon in this form is that it shows of its masterful counterpoint which is the true genius of the work. I hate all the modern remixes that keep the melody but toss the counterpoint for precisely this reason.

  • are you the same guy as musanim?

  • @DaFergify I have several YouTube channels; smalin is the main one, musanim is the archive/spillover channel.

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  • It is beautifull

  • Its ALL too fast!

  • Well, sorry to say this, but as it is, it feels too mecanised to sound as good as a real performance. There is still time needed before every classical piece could be translated in informatic bits.

    There is no soul in this interpretation, so i find it a bit boring.

  • @ramening

    These *are* real performers (read the description). There is no virtual instrument library that sounds this real. Your post is either a compliment to the quality of modern virtual instrument software, an insult to the performers, or an indication of your own projection onto what you hear based on what you see.

  • @xXNickPXx My bad, so consider my post as a criticism of the performance (with a agreement about my hearing being affected by my other senses, i don't know how to focus all your attention on just one sense).

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  • @xXNickPXx :P your comment made me laugh

  • never gets boring... simple, but amazing

  • Non è troppo veloce?

  • @AronPianoSolo Sembrerebbe che sia vero

  • @smalin you are great! At the first time of my teenage, I was listening to slow rock, then rock, then hard rock.... then rockestra, then dunno why I'm more into classic music like this. deep and calming. each has its own story to tell to the audience.

  • Where can I get the full image of this?

  • @egorman19 You'd have to make it yourself. (This video wasn't created from a full image; each frame of the video was independently generated from scratch.)

  • Cellist: "Crap, I only practiced one line!"

    *reads though sheet music*

    Cellist: "Oh, I guess i'm set then..."

  • @SurestPlayer Hahaha

  • absolutely top class

  • Its kinda nasty for the cellist -although we are building the chords, the viola baseline-esque part is so much more fun to play !!

  • One more alltime favorite

  • it has been a really long time for them to upload new video @@ look at the upload time

  • i think that will be the music of my wedding! =)

  • too fast maybe better when it are more slow..

  • poor cellist..

  • @abcynthias Are you kidding? The cellist has the best seat in the house! The cellist gets to play in the piece, but has a part that's really easy, and so has a lot of attention left over to listen to the other instruments. Bach played both violin and viola, and in quartets, he liked to play the viola for exactly that reason: it's a great place to experience the music from.

  • @smalin

    You have obviously never had to play this on the cello. It is the one thing you will have to play at some point at a wedding, and personally, every time I play it I drift away...and not in teh good way =P

  • @smalin You should check out "Pachabel Rant" Hilarious stand up by, I believe, Rob Parangian(? spl) regarding the cello part of Canon and the prevalence of the piece in modern music. Also thank you for putting this up, arguably one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

  • @dramaends Yes, I've seen it.

  • @abcynthias i don't what you are talking about!!! i am a cellist

  • @abcynthias I´m cellist and we play this. And sometimes I forget that I´m playing. The worst is that I never know when it ends.

  • @abcynthias never say poor cellist they have held more orchesttrats together than any violinist living or dead!!!!!

  • Magnifique ! Je pleurs chaque fois que cette mélodie extraordinairement pure parvint à mes oreilles. Bravo pour la vidéo, très explicite.

  • <3 <3 <3!!!! <3 this!!!XD

  • And say that I danced on it pieces 35 years ago! I was then, young, beautiful, strong, and very loving! A wonderful proverb...

  • perfect*-*

  • this is baroque not romantic.

  • @Unholyspaghetti The name of the playlist is not "romantic" as opposed to "baroque" but "romantic" as opposed to "exciting" or "funny" or "unusual" --- that is, the word is not being used in its technical music historical sense, but in its common, everyday sense.

  • @smalin ah i see

  • the best music maker is BACH!!!!!!!! BACH FOREVER!.But this is awesome partitur too!

  • i remember hearing this in a movie once... but i dont know which

  • @RobloxGuyMan It's been in a few movies, you might want to try pachelbelcanon. com

  • Does it remind anyone of math ??

  • @0champignon0 Ha, I thought I was the only one

  • Love the piece

  • Wow! This piece is beautiful! I have a piano at home and is practicing for a big school recital competition on November. This is a good guide for it. Amazing! Will recommend to my friends and family! Thanks for the wonderful piece!

  • but the sharp is not right~

  • I really like the fact that you included the score with this animation, and I'd like to see more of that if possible. Thank you for all your wonderful videos!

  • Amazing.....................

  • I LOVE this!!

  • Love it

  • really good piece i dont play violin i play piano but this is really good i wonder if its easy!!!

  • Being a violoncellist is a punishment in this one... 8 tones and nothing more :D

    Still awesome piece..

  • My ears can't stands sounds of this magnitude!

  • This is such an exciting piece for the cello! Believe me, I have played this many times.

  • meraviglioso  !

  • thanks for your work, beautiful.

  • You should really have someone apprentice you in doing this type of thing.

  • @slinkyinawagon Lots of people are using my software to make this kind of video.

  • i think the only bit i really know how to play is the bass, but only in c

    C,G,A,E,F,C,F,G

  • Damn it's like inspired by a genetic coding in our genes. That's why it sounds so inspiring... the creating of life is in the genes, just as the music's flow was in harmonious flow, so are the genes of life.

  • little too quick in my opinion :).

  • ooh this makes me feel ill - it is so unnatural - there is no connection between the notes whatsoever it makes me feel sick!

  • would u be able to just send me the notes instead of the music sheet please so i can use for btec music please?

  • My middle school orchestra played this<3 From a first violin point of view, this is amazing. This piece is really one you can put a lot of emotion into, not to mention vibrato ;]

  • This is epic music!

    Greetings from Turkey...

  • where is the organ?

  • @littleasshole26 Go to (Pachelbel Canon in D Original Insturments) and see the preformance of this recording by Voices of Music

  • @MASONFSJR +1

  • @PanzyKing I don't get your message

  • @MASONFSJR +2

  • @PanzyKing this +1 and +2 stuff i don't understand, and yes I asked a random Stranger a Question about a these women; but if you weren't qualified to comment I suggest; that if you want the Sheet Music. I would recommend you try Walvis 2007. He posted the video and he From my estimation and his comments, is a professional Muscian,Tell him that Masonfsjr sent you.He banded me from making comments.

  • @MASONFSJR lol, its just a way to show i support what youre saying. like a thumbs up. i just felt like putting it down

  • @littleasshole26 Go to (Pachelbel Canon In D original insturments) Lady Fourth from the right is playing the Baroque Organ.

  • One of the most beautifully composed pieces of all time. Cliche or not, this is what I want playing at my wedding.

  • beautiful, just beautiful. This is my future wedding song for when I walk down the isle

  • video très interessante! amusant de pouvoir suivre la musique;

    félicitations et merci

  • what da fucKKKKKkKKKK LOL j8ust KIddin Dis song Is frikIn awesome !

  • This has got to be my favorite piece ever. I love the runs of each individual instrument, how they blend together and move. No matter what instrument you play, the notes just flow from it; it's like dancing, but an instrument is so much better at flow than any human partner could ever be.

  • Yuja Wang is very fast too! SHould check her out!

  • This is beautiful!

  • I love this song. We played it in our classorchestra in class 7.

  • The cello part rocks.

  • @therapsids do you play cello? doing that for 5 minutes is pure torture.

  • Funny enough, when I hear this song it reminds me of late autumn / early winter, and the colours used in the video kind of matches that images in my opinion :)

  • poor cellos... 8 notes, 54 times repeated...

  • That was so much fun to watch and listen to.

  • that cello part is intense :-P

  • amazing only scratches the surface of this...

  • wow. i. i just. i love this. its beautiful. very beautiful. thank you for the upload :)

  • @3idiotsRuleKwms This piece is preformed by Voices of Music to see the actual performance,go to Pachelbel Canon in D-Original Insturments,be warned if your comment get's to technical without merit based on music experience the guy Walvis2007 who posted it will try to make you look simple,or make a snide remark but if you like it,give it a thumbs up on me.

  • i love this version of pachelbel's canon.

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  • i hope this one will be in Breaking Dawn~1 its lovely!

  • A very interesting presentation of this piece! I have heard maybe 100 versions of this, and it's one of my favorites. I especially like the various adaptations to bluegrass, rock and other genres. However, I feel this version is... well, it has a sort of clockwork lack of emotion to it, and I've never heard that done before. It is very interesting and certainly unique, but I can't say I *like* it too much.

  • @jasmine2501 ooohhh jasmine you're so respectfully wrong,please do me a favor not that you have to but go to Pachelbel Canon in D,original insturments and see the music that you've already heard preformed on this posting by the artists who actually did the recording and watch with your eyes and listen with your heart,see passion for an age of music gone by but is so alive today,because it was a production of Love originally for his wife.

  • @MASONFSJR I did that, actually. I'm not insulting the artist. Music is just as much for the listener as for the performer. Others may not agree with my assessment, and that is of course, the beauty of art.

  • @jasmine2501 Oh no no my beloved love I do not now, nor ever did I think that you were insulting these artist,it was a request to see the video nothing more,the assessment or expression of one's opinion is beauty in it's self.I on the other was banned from making an opinion from the very page that I sent you too,by the guy that posted it, because I spoke of the Passion displayed by those very same artist's,now isn't that a kick in the pants

  • @MASONFSJR Well I really love your channel - the music visualizations are really well done! I agree about the comments. I will always love to hear what people have to say about art - even if they hate it. The whole purpose of art is evoke emotion, and that leads to comments, which are always valid even if you don't agree with them. It is important to listen to people regarding art, because they can show you things you didn't see, and this can give you a new perspective on LIFE, not just art.

  • @jasmine2501 COOL

  • i swear this is a baroque piece? Is it not?

  • @ben123wright123  Most definitely Baroque.

  • @ben123wright123 yes, pachelbel was a barroque compositor.

  • Can you do Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement?? (Or do appassionata 3rd movement)(All Beethoven)

  • @DunNotCome I can and, if I live long enough, I will.

  • Which program do you use for that? it's soooo cool!

  • @anaisxxxlove Check out my web site.

  • All of the recordings you selected are great.  Just found your animations a few weeks ago. Love it.

  • :) I did not have seemed to hear the last part of the song so I am quite amazed! TY

  • I 'm just wondering what is the tempo?

  • I just need help with one thing...I'm writing the bottom staff in a Cello. How would i transpose that from the current staff? It would help more if some one could put the first 16 notes in Cello because after that it just repeats through out the whole song. Thanks for the help!

  • @drocker4 The bottom staff is already written for the 'cello.

  • @smalin what tuning? Standard?

  • @drocker4 No, "old" tuning (from around when this was written).

  • @smalin"old" tuning doesnt help but thanks for everything else ;)

  • @drocker4 Pitch standards rose between when this was written and now, as did tuning methods. Today, A is defined as 440 cycles per second, and all half-steps are the same size ("equal tempered"); when this was written, A varied a lot but in general was lower, and the half-steps were of different sizes ("well tempered," "mean-tone temperament," "just temperament," etc.). The Wikipedia articles about temperament describe this.

  • @smalin When Johann Pachelbel wrote this pice "A" was tuned to 430 Hz. That 440 Hz is anyway a american thing. We in Austria still use the 443 Hz, especially String sounds much clearer and brighter with it.

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  • It's impossible to frown while drinking a Wendey's Frosty. It's impossible to frown while listening to this song. It's also impossible to eat a Wendey's Frosty while listening to this song because I drop it from sheer amazment everytime I listen. How terribly inconvenient.

  • @soniczdawun1 That's what the pause button is for.

  • Beautiful. Thank you.

  • wow. just wow. this song is so moving.

  • Can't people just be positive? I mean everyone has all these negitive comments. why can't they just say: 'hey, thanks for posting a song that doesn't suck donkey nuts'? btw, thanks for posting a song that doesn't suck donkey nuts.

  • @happyman555 like I said in my comment few have the Wisdom to just enjoy the flight to heaven

  • Beeeeeeeeyooooooooteeeeefuuuuu­ulllll!  My heart's all a-flutterin'!!!

  • Great example of musical beauty which is complex but not trying to confront you with monumentality of life (like all other great composers did, since its the easiest way :) Its also not funny or too happy, its perfectly balanced in the middle. How rare is this mood of balance in our lifes!

  • One of the most Beautiful pieces I've ever heard,since my intro to classical music K1-5 years ago.Classical was an art form that soared and while I never learned to play an insturment of any kind;the music is always with me even some meaningful rap.The passion of these Artist who play and the Composer who wrote the Canon,shows the depth of music that can take you outside and also deep within yourself. I believe music is a threshold to Heaven, but too few have the Wisdom to just enjoy the flight.

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  • simply irresposble not to call this peice of art anything less than perfecto

  • love the sheet music on the bottom !

  • Amazing!

  • For a song that gets over played (or at least it was at my high school), I'm absolutely in love with this version! I could listen to it over and over.

  • Isn't that Corelli? Or am I mistaken? :S

  • nicely done

  • nice tempo, really makes it jolly

    thanks for posting

  • this song always brings smile to my face.....you simply HAVE TO LOVE IT <3 !

  • You should do albinoni's adagio in g minor