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QUESTION: There is this perfect arrangement of Pacabel's canon on Youtube. It is exactly three minutes and 54 seconds. I am getting married and what I like best is the trumpets at the end. I think this may be the last of the last part of it. My question is 1/ do you need three violins and how to I figure out the last four minutes or so. It is where there is this sound of triumph. Need help. short of writing to the London Symphony Orchestra in England not sure what to do.
ANSWER: The Canon is for string orchestra. I don't know anything about trumpets at the end; I am sure this is an arrangement made by someone. Since you didn't include a link, I can't listen. 1/ Yes, you will need violins. Or a transcription for some other instrument (piano, harp...).
2/ The only way I know of to get a printed copy of something you hear is to put a MIDI feed into a notation program such as Finale.
I think neither of these is feasible for you. Any chance you can just play the recording?
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QUESTION: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck
this is the link. I think I will go with a harp and violins with a trumpet as they have it at the end. Hopefully we will figure this out. Any suggestions greatly apprecoated. Carolyn in Canada
The trumpet part at the end is not original. It has been added. By whom, I don't know - probably the person who arranged the piece for the recording. I'd say find a trumpeter and see if that person can "take dictation" for the trumpet part.
I noted with chuckles that on the comment part of the page to which your link points that someone had scornfully announced that Mozart was German, not whatever nationality a previous person had declared. In fact, Mozart was Austrian. He was born in Salzburg. And he didn't write the Canon in D Major! As we know.....!
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