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Carolyn Schiffhouer

Clarion, PA USA

Ode to Pachelbel's Canon


Art: Ode to Pachelbel's Canon by Artist Carolyn Schiffhouer
This is for the "music in me" abstract art challenge. I have always been inspired by the music of Pachelbel's Canon. For a while I played a hammered dulcimer and accompanied a violinist in playing the canon. This canon was played as a parlor game. One muscian would start a ground (simple melody that remained consistant throughout the piece) and the other muscians would go around the room taking turns playing something that would go with the ground. This is how Pachelbel's Canon came into being. After a while it took the form we see today. In my piece the ground is represented by the white lined area that repeats itsel over and over. The swirling gold, blue and purple represent the music swirling around the Ground. I have always thought of Pachelbe's Canon as a piece that swirled with light and dark passages of different colors. That is what I tried to depict with this piece, that interplay between the melodies and the ground.

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