Pachelbel's Canon in D. Please Help.

Does anyone know where I can get a good arrangement of Pachelebel's Canon in D for a violin and cello duet?

If so please tell me. My friend has asked me to play at his brother's wedding with him and we need an arrangement of it.

Thanks in advance.

Plz get creative and play something else.

ktnx.

Just get the quartet version and keep the cello line the same and make sure the tune is always in the violin so just extract it from the other parts when it isn't...maybe...well it's an option...or just don't play it at all...for the cellist's sake!

Plz get creative and play something else.

ktnx.

It wasn't my idea, it was requested of me. My friend's brother wanted it.

Just get the quartet version and keep the cello line the same and make sure the tune is always in the violin so just extract it from the other parts when it isn't...maybe...well it's an option...or just don't play it at all...for the cellist's sake!

I am the cellist... I really don't want to play the boring cello part.

Make your own arrangements.. This piece is very versatile.. For reference, you can listen to George Winston's own arrangement or maybe even David Lanz's..

Good luck.

EDIT: Nice vid Robin!

Nice vid Robin!

Is funny, no? :P

Me and a cellist friend played it once, it was from virtual sheet music, but we didn't play the whole thing because it was quite awkard. Not a good arrangement. Did you try looking at wedding music collections?

Music For Two (Wedding Music and Classical Favorites) at Southwest Strings

If you go there, you'll find a wedding collection which has it.

Thanks violinfiddler, sadly today I learned I will be unable to attend the wedding.

Robinjessome, the video is hilarious and very true for cellists...

I was going to post the same video. But if you really really had to do it, I'd just make my own arangement.

you can listen to George Winston's own arrangement or maybe even David Lanz's..

I love them both, especially Lanz!! (i.e. Cristofori's Dream, Dec. Overture, New World Turning, Firedance, Take the High Road, Brother Quix.)

What instruments was the Canon in D originally written for? I've heard so many different arrangements that I don't even know which ones use the original instrumentation. It is very confusing! :w00t:

I believe the original is for three violins and continuo.

Sorry if it's something obvious but, what is continuo? :)

That's geek talk for ''people that play that other stuff besides the melody in baroque music''. ;)

I see. So what instruments were originally used for the continuo part of the Canon?

Three violins and a cello is im not wrong, and I thinkQccowboy meant "basso continuo", which means repeating bass (part). This basso continuo serves as a bass (well, duh.) and a time keeper for conductor-less ensembles.

At least this is what I remember, if it I can remember correctly...

The original piece was a canon, which entailed a canon (okay, go and find the exact definition of a canon) for three violins, no counterpoint or anything fanciful like that. So IMO, you can just take the first violin part with the cello part and play it.

You know it's funny but I actually don't think I have ever heard it performed that way! (3 violins, 1 cello) Strange that not very many people play it as originally intended.

:)

continuo is generally a bass instrument AND a harpsichord.

The bass part, played either by a viol (depending on the period) or a cello with or without contrabass, is "obligato", meaning it is a "written out" part. While the keyboard part generally contained the bass part, along with various numeric indicators for harmony and voice leading where necessary, and was largely improvised.

you could just go to sheetmusicplus.com or Google it, or go to your local music store (even though mine doesn't have sheet music worth crap) By the way, I love your gustav mahler quote, can I "borrow" it?