Path 01
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Ten well-known works to learn the map on, each open in full to everyone.
Pachelbel → Bach → Vivaldi → Mozart → Beethoven → Schubert → Chopin → Dvořák → Debussy
Canon in D major
This guide follows Pachelbel’s Canon in D major (1706) in one part.
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Follow the bass line that never stops repeating, while the three violins come in one after another within the first ( I). From II onward the music moves to a new violin about every four , up to XII, and then comes the last, XIII. Each dresses the same chord pattern in a new way, so the notes keep changing speed and shape while the harmony stays still.
- I
- II
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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Baroque essentials
Ground bass, ritornello, fugue and dance: the Baroque in twelve works, from Purcell to Bach's Musical Offering.
Purcell → Pachelbel → Bach → Vivaldi → Handel → Scarlatti
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