This is a MIDI Type 0 version of Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, recorded from the sheet music found on the website This composition is out of copyright, so the copyright in the recording is owned entirely by me, Joe Sutton. You are welcome to distribute it as you please, so long as you distribute this file with it and do not charge for it. It was recorded in the sequencer Jazz++, obtainable for free at Some checking for mistakes was done using 'MAGIX Music Studio Generation MM', as this can show MIDI files as sheet music. A Yamaha PSS-590 keyboard was used, connected to an Avance ALS4000 sound card, on a 600MHz Pentium 2 computer running Windows 98 (Checking and mistake correction performed on a Windows XP system).

Apart from any inevitable mistakes, this recording is exactly as the sheet music, with the following exceptions: >I have made no effort to take notice of any individual note marks (e.g. Two Weeks Eng Sub. Accents), because I do not know what they all mean, and suspect some are to do with which way the bow is pulled on a stringed instrument). >Sentence marks have not been acknowledged >All notes, except those in the 'Cembalo' section, are 1/12 longer than their actual length, to create a smoother effect, making the music sound more realistic. The exception is when they are immediately followed by another note at the same pitch, when they are the smallest possible amount shorter than their actual length to ensure they are played as a separate note. >On the eighth and tenth bars (which are identical) from the end in the treble cleft of the 'Cembalo' part, there are two adjacent crotchets, one of G and the second a chord of A and D. These make the bar five beats long, so I assumed they were meant to be quavers, and recorded them as such.

Open in editors and sequencers. (i'm only guessing, as this is the primary arrangement of canon for the piano (albeit in c major instead of in d)). Download midi melodies Pachelbel, Johann. Midi melodies of artist Pachelbel, Johann. Pachelbel, Johann – Canon in D Major.mid.

>The last notes in all parts are supposed to be crotchets, but I have made them minims because I think that makes the ending sound much more impressive. I have used the following Jazz++ levels for volume: pp - 72 p - 80 mp - 88 normal - 96 mf - 104 f - 112 ff - 120 And I have used the following GM (General Midi) instruments: Violino I - 41- Violin Violino II - 43- Cello Violino III - 51- Synth Strings1 Violinocello - 50- Slow Strings Cembalo (treble) - 7- Harpsichord Cembalo (bass) - 7- Harpsichord Enjoy listening, and if you like it or spot any mistakes, please email me at I would love to hear from you! Joe Sutton, November 2008.

Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D major or Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo, is the most famous piece of music by German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. It was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue in the same key. Like most other works by Pachelbel and other pre-1700 composers, the Canon remained forgotten for centuries and was rediscovered only in the 20th century. Several decades after it was first published in 1919, the piece became extremely popular, and today it is frequently played at weddings and included on classical music compilations, along with other famous Baroque pieces such as Air on the G String by Johann Sebastian Bach. This marks one of the first occasions in the past 20 years this work was allowed to be 'Free Again, Free at Last'.