Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Canon in D Major

I don't know much about music and is not a fan of classical music either. But I like Canon in D Major a lot.

I first come across this from the soundtrack of the Korean movie The Classic.

I did some search on the internet and found that it had a simple chord progression, played by 3 violins 2 bar apart. It's just simply melodies overlaid on top of each other till it became a very rich composition.

In the 2006 animated version of the anime series Kanon.

Canon in D is played in the café Yuuichi and his friends visit. In a later episode, Sayuri mentions the piece, "When the same melody plays repeatedly, little by little it'd turn into a rich and beautiful music. Just like this, even if a person lives a seemingly unchanging life, little by little things will change."

So, little things in life may be mundane. But overlay them together, little by little we can build a rich and beautiful life.

And this guitar rendition of the piece is pretty awesome!

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