Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Hi, this is Chelsea and I would like to welcome you to our new segment, Wedding Music of the Week. This is not our usual wedding savings tips to having inexpensive wedding. Here, we will feature beautiful wedding music you can use. We also include information about the composer of the songs and the artist(s) who popularized them. We might even add a little trivia or history about the song for kicks.
For today’s piece of music, I have chosen my most favorite wedding music of all wedding themes, the Canon. This masterpiece was composed by Johann Pachelbel in or around 1680, during the Baroque era. Canon, which is what it’s popularly called now, also goes by the titles of Pachelbel’s Canon, Canon in D Major, or Canon and Gigue in D major (formal).
The piece’s score was discovered and first published in the 1920s. Arthur Fieldler, a long time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, first recorded this wonderful music in 1940. American film director and actor, Robert Redford used the piece for his 1980 Academy Award-winning film “Ordinary People”. He use the Canon as the main theme for this movie.
The video I found from youtube is a recording from T Carter Music. This particular Canon in D major recording was beautifully merged with an inspirational Celtic traditional arrangement. I love Canon already, and I fell in love with it more mixed with Celtic music. Click the video and listen to this wonderful heart melting rendition of Canon in D major. Enjoy your weekend!
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