Pachelbel: Canon

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These high-quality piano accompaniment tracks help make practising more effective and enjoyable! They are recorded by a professional accompanist and can help you keep in tune and in time, as you play along to the piano part for this work.

Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D has become world famous since its revival in the 1970s, and is heard everywhere from weddings to pop songs. The key to its success is its memorable bass line, a series of 8 chords which repeat a number of times with ever more elaborate melodies on top.

The accompaniment track on this website is based on the arrangement of the Canon made by the German musicologist Max Seiffert (1868-1948), which can be heard in full on YouTube here - video link (opens in new tab)

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