Contrasting Periods :: Pachelbel Rant :: April

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Filed Under Music Theory, Music on Monday, April 23rd 2007

Even though it has been around for about four months now, and I am sure that most of you internet hipsters have seen this long before now, I have finally watched the “Pachelbel Rant” on Youtube.

If you haven’t seen it, it is just as funny as advertised, especially for a guy who teaches theory and is married to a cellist. As with all good comedy, it hits the nail right on the head with just the right amount of exaggeration to make it entertaining.

My sincere thanks to R. and A., two students at two separate universities who both recommended it to me within four days of each other.

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Comments

Wes F. in North Adams on Saturday April 28, 2007 at 3:36 pm

This redefines awesome. This borders on, as the kids say, “teh hawesome.”

(And it’s way funnier than the bit I do in orchestration class where the first movement of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms becomes the theme from The Flintstones.)