Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on January 6th 2002 by Will CPT.
This tune has been added to 207 tunebooks.
Also known as Kohler's, Kohler's Hornpipe, Layboum's, Laybourn's, P Joe's Pecurious Pachelbel Special, P.J.'s Pecurious Pachelbel Special, Pachelbel's, Pachelbel's Frolics, Pachelbel's Hornpipe.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Pachabel's Frolics
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
(3ABc|:d2 dc defg|a2 ab agfe|A~B3 dcdB|ABGA FDEF|
|GFGA ~B3c|dcde f2 fa|gfed cdef|1 ~g3f gfec:|2 gece d3 e||
|fdAd fdAd|ecAc ecAc|dBFB dBFB|AGAB =cAFA|
|GFGA ~B3^c|dcde ~f3 a|gfed cdef|~g3f gfeg|
|fd (3ddd fd (3ddd|ec (3ccc ec (3ccc|dB (3BBB dB (3BBB|
|AGAB =cAFA|G2 GF GAB^c|dcde f2 fa|gfed cdef|gece d2 (3ABc|
Pachabel's Frolics
This setting is based loosely on the playing of Eileen Ivers on her "Eileen Ivers" cd (at least one of the simpler cuts out of that track) with Win Horan. But to my ear, they jumped to the resolve too early at the end of each half, rushing back to the d tonic. So my version hangs on the g a bit longer. Martin Hayes also does this one on his Live in Seattle cd.
Ivers does a nice moving bowed triplet on the second ending of each half: |gfed (3ccd ef|gece d....| Putting this in as the second ending to each half helps me remember where I'm at in the tune (this being one of those reels where it's easy to slip into a trance and lose track of how many times you've played each part).
If the triplet-filled B Part is too tricky, just repeat the first eight bars of Part B again. Here in Montana we do that anyway, and save the triplets for the second or third time around as a variation.
Also, for variety you can roll or triplet on most of the quarter notes or on the GFG, dcd, or B note phrases. The other fun thing to do with this tune is to play a little of the classical slow intro that strings would play at the start of Pachabel's Canon. This doesn't have to be as involved as Ivers version, just the first 16 bars. Your audience will think you've gone black coat and tie on them, and then you spring into the Frolics....
# Posted on January 6th 2002 by Will CPT
Erratum
Sorry about the high b in measure 11 of the second half. That was supposed to be B. I corrected the abc.
# Posted on January 7th 2002 by Will CPT
MY GOODNESS! I've heard this!!!
I love it! THanks so much!!!
# Posted on June 23rd 2002 by The Whistler
What to do when you're bored...
Two other Versions from Martin Hayes, Live in Seattle and John Williams, Steam. Both originally in C but transposed here to the more session-friendly key of D. These are basically what they play the first time through before going into orbit.
Have fun
X: 1
T: P.Joe's Pecurious Pachelbel Special
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
S: Martin Hayes, Live in Seattle
N: Originally played in the key of C
|d3 c def^g|^gaag afed|BAB (d d)cdB|A3 A2 FDF|
|G3 B2 ABc|dcde faba|gfed Bdc/d/e|fdd/d/c dABc|
|d2 dc defa|a^gab afed|B3 c dcdB|A3 A2 FDF|
|GB,GA BGBd|dcde faba|gfed Bdce|fddc dfag||
|:f/g/ada fada|eaca eaca|dfBf dfBf|AdFd AdFd|
|G3 B2 ABd|dcde faba|gfed Bdce|1 fddc dfag:|2 fddc dABc||
X: 1
T: P.J.'s Pecurious Pachelbel Special
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
S: John Williams, Steam
N: Originally played in the key of C
(3ABc|:d3 c defg|a3 b agfe|B3 c dcdB|A2 AB ADEF|
|G3 A BABc|dAB/c/d faba|gfed Bdce|1 fddc dABc:|2 fddc daag||
|:fada fadf|eaca eace|dfBf dfBf|AdFd AdFA|
|G3 A BABc|dAB/c/d faba|gfed Bdce|1 fddc daag:|2 fddc dABc|]
# Posted on January 28th 2005 by Bleedin' Heart
LAGQ
For a really fun rendition, check out the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. They make several passes through the canon in various decidedly un-classical styles, including bluegrass banjo (which Scott Tenant plays on banjo on the official recording, but somehow manages to play convincingly on classical guitar(!) in concerts).
# Posted on August 9th 2005 by Bob himself
THIS IS KOHLER'S HORNPIPE
There is a popular legend that Eileen Ivers made this reel after the famous Pachelbel's Canon. That is proven to be wrong.
This tune was published as an untitled Hornpipe in a Scottish book around 1881-5, the book is "Kohler's Violin Repository", and the original key for the tune is C.
The tune has been part of the repertoire among Cape Breton fiddlers, where it is known as "Kohler's Hornpipe", way before it was transcribed to D and popularized by Ivers as "Pachelbel's Frolics". She obviously noticed its resemblance with Pachelbel's piece and thought they would sound good together.
If Kohler or whoever wrote the tune was influenced by Pachelbel's Canon remains unknown.
Sorry to once again take the credit off the Irish musicians to give it back to the Scottish, but we have to be fair here.
Cheers.
Gregorio.
# Posted on January 24th 2008 by G. Marzo
PACHELBEL
please, this is the correct spelling - he couldn't help being German.
Also, why not make a baroque-ing set and go into a 'folked-up' version of the Gigue (Jig) that Pachelbel originally wrote to follow the Canon (but which unfortunately is rarely played)? I'll ABC it another day...
# Posted on May 10th 2008 by fynnjamin
Awesome tune! I've heard a good fiddler play it at a session and it didn't even seem playable on the whistle when I first heard it, but it actually is and now I can't stop playing it.
# Posted on July 8th 2008 by Whiddler