On Jan 23, 2014, at 3:01 PM, R. Mattes <[email protected]> wrote: > if you exdend it and go up again > you end up with something often called "Pachelbel-Sequence".
A poster on another list some years ago asserted that Pachelbels canon is based on the Aria del Granduca. If you look at sequences of four or five notes, youre going to find all sorts of correlations. Think twice about concluding theres a causal connection. There are only so many combinations of notes, and similarity does not mean identity, as weve had occasion to remind posters whove maintained that the renaissance vihuela and the charango, or the viola da gamba and the guitar, are the same instrument. In 1959, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic did a television broadcast featuring music with themes that started with How Dry I Am (G-C-D-E). It included the second movement of the D major Water Music Suite, the Moldau, the Merry Widow Waltz, the Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, the slow movement of Beethovens Second Symphony, Brahms 1st Piano Concerto, Strauss Death and Transfiguration (end), the Nocturne from Mendelssohns Midsummer Nights Dream, Coplands Appalachian Spring dressing of Simple Gifts, The Partys Over, the horn solo from Till Eulenspiegel, then gets into themes that use the same notes in different orders, then gets into the theme in minor: the finale of the Pathetique sonata, and the the entire last movement of Shostakovichs 5th Symphony. He somehow missed the famous quickstep from the 1812 overture. The show was called The Infinite Variety of Music. You can read the script in his book of the same name, or, if you have 48 minutes and 46 seconds to kill, listen to it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRKw8MENoCs -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
