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Pachelbel Canon

Pachelbel’s Canon in D dates to the late-17th or early 18th century by the German It dates to the late-17th or early 18th century composer Johann Pachelbel. Like his other works, Pachelbel’s Canon went out of style, and remained in obscurity for centuries. It gained popularity from the 1970s onward, with elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, used in a variety of pop songs. Since the 1980s, it has also found increasingly common use in weddings and funeral ceremonies in the Western world.

A No-C-Notes intermediate piano score is available for free as an instruction to using audio described sheet music. It has right hand and left hand parts separately played and described. You can order it through this website’s catalog Views and Tunes Free Scores: http://audiomusicscore.com/product-category/views-and-tunes-free-scores/

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