Music Files Below (left click to listen, right click to download)
1. Canon (Full Instrumentation)
2. Canon (Reduced Instrumentation)
3. Canon (Simplified Instrumentation)
***Information about Key Poulan’s Shows on MSConcepts.com***
Most shows are available in Full Instrumentation®, Reduced Instrumentation®, and/or Simplified® wind versions.
Key Poulan's music is designed so that you can pick the parts from each version that work best for your band, and build exactly the instrumentation you need!
Example: Let's say your trombone/baritone section is smaller; you have a full clarinet section; and you have incoming freshmen in your trumpet section:
- Trombone/Baritones play the REDUCED VERSION (2 parts rather than 3)
- Clarinets play the FULL VERSION (all 3 parts)
- Trumpet use the SIMPLIFIED VERSION
Our exclusive Pit by the Numbers® Percussion is designed to be used for any size front ensemble section. Choose from 3, 4 or 5 bass drums.
Key Poulan Music wants every student, regardless of skill level, to contribute to their marching band field show at a level they can achieve.
Please contact us if you have any questions!
msc@msconcepts.com
Show Description:
One of the most popular pieces of music ever written, one that has withstood the test of centuries and seems to become even more popular as centuries pass, is Johann Pachelbel’s timeless “Canon”. Taking this immortal classic, Key Poulan has created Canon: Deconstruction/Reconstruction, a show that lifts up the work, explores it from many angles, tears it apart, puts it back together in unexpected ways and turns it every-which-way as it blazes towards a triumphal ending. Although the ending is out of character with the original tranquility of the piece, it fits the work in a manner than one wonders why Pachelbel himself did not turn on the afterburners.Individual lines of the original are manipulated, employing many different instrumental colors. One possible visual theme is to treat the piece as a blueprint, constructing a “stage” to spotlight the various musicians who deliver the theme throughout the show. The commissioning band started the pit all over the field and rolled the instruments onto the blueprint diagram at points draftsmen would have indicated. A cello soloist was employed by the original band to play this work, but you may use any of your star students in the solo role.
CREDITS
By: Key Poulan, Percussion by Jeff Ausdemore (Originally commissioned by Colleyville Heritage H.S., Colleyville, Texas - Jed Weeks, Director)
