Music Medals Violin Ensemble Pieces are five volumes of enjoyable and accessible repertoire for the developing ensemble progressively graded Copper Bronze Silver Gold and Platinum. They contain original pieces and imaginative arrangements for duets trios and quartets.

Music Medals Violin Ensemble Pieces are five volumes of enjoyable and accessible repertoire for the developing ensemble progressively graded Copper Bronze Silver Gold and Platinum. They contain original pieces and imaginative arrangements for duets trios and quartets.

With this work Pachelbel who was born in Nuremberg created one of the most popular orchestral pieces of the baroque period. In the canon two of the strictest contrapuntal forms are combined: The three violin parts form an extensive canon with entries of two bars distance. To this a ground bass (basso ostinato) has been added repeating its two-bar tone formula 28 times. The technical mastery of the piece can be ad-mired just as much as its effect lies in the melodic and sensuous power of its string tones. The modest technical demands on the musicians are diametrically opposed to the compositional level: they do not go beyond the third position.