COMPOSER OF CANON ROCK

JerryC also known by his English name Jerry Chang, is a Taiwanese

guitarist and composer. He is known for arranging and playing "Canon
Rock", a rock arrangement of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D. He began
playing the guitar at the age of 17, and the piano before age 15.[2] His
style is influenced by classical music, neoclassical guitarists, as well
as metal bands such as Helloween and Metallica and Japanese rock
bands such as B'z and L'Arc-en-Ciel.
 COMPOSER OF CANON IN D

Johann Pachelbel was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ
tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the
development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important
composers of the middle Baroque era.[3] Pachelbel's music enjoyed enormous popularity during his
lifetime; he had many pupils and his music became a model for the composers of south and central
Germany. Today, Pachelbel is best known for the Canon in D, as well as the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata
in E minor for organ, and the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard variations.[4] He was influenced by
southern German composers, such as Johann Jakob Froberger and Johann Caspar Kerll, Italians such as
Girolamo Frescobaldi and Alessandro Poglietti, French composers, and the composers of the Nuremberg
tradition[citation needed]. He preferred a lucid, uncomplicated contrapuntal style that emphasized
melodic and harmonic clarity. His music is less virtuosic and less adventurous harmonically than that of
Dieterich Buxtehude, although, like Buxtehude, Pachelbel experimented with different ensembles and
instrumental combinations in his chamber music and, most importantly, his vocal music, much of which
features exceptionally rich instrumentation. Pachelbel explored many variation forms and associated
techniques, which manifest themselves in various diverse pieces, from sacred concertos to harpsichord
suites.
 About the Canon Rock
Canon Rock is a classical/metal instrumental
composed by the Taiwanese musician and
songwriter Jerry Chang (aka JerryC). The guitar
arrangement is based on Johann Pachelbel's
Canon in D Major, a well-known classical
masterpiece often used during wedding
ceremonies.
 About the Canon In D
It’s as simple as three violins, one cello, and eight
bars of music repeated 28 times. Johann
Pachelbel’s Canon has risen in popularity to
become one of the best-known pieces of classical
music ever written. It is often used during wedding
ceremonies. We don’t even know exactly when it
was composed, although it’s thought it was around
1680.