Hummingbird Music Publishers · Canonic Variants Watch Score VideoView Score This is the Pachelbel Canon, …even though it isn’t! The music borrows freely from Pachelbel’s melodies and infinitely maintains the repeating eight notes of the bass line but, unlike a canon, those melodies constantly change and cannot be performed simultaneously with one another. The arranger has transformed the work into a tiny concertino giving lots of the band little four-measure pieces of the “pie.” Conductors might note that it would be permissible to skip some of the four-bar sections to either shorten the roughly-five-and-a-half-minute duration or allow performance if soloists are unavailable or instrumentation is incomplete. The difficulty level is dependent on which sections are played or omitted.
