While Pachelbel has been most admired as a composer of organ works and Lutheran church music, his Canon in D has long been one of his most celebrated compositions. It combines two time-honored compositional devices. The firstof these is of course the canon, a procedure whereby a melody in one part is strictly imitated by one or more other parts, a round (such as, for example, Fr&egrave,re Jacques) is a type of canon. The second device involves a shortbass line (refeered to as a ground bass) t