Saturday, February 29, 2020

"Prologue"

Last night, I figured out the synth bass part in "Prologue" from Time, and I noticed something interesting about it.  I might have it in the wrong octave, but it's something like:


A section of this sounded familiar to me, and I discovered that if this part is transposed up a whole step (to D major)


measures 5 to 8 (which are played at about the same time the vocals start, at ~0:40) are exactly the same as the first five measures of the bass part from Pachelbel's canon:


I don't know if this was intentional or just a coincidence, but it is quite a similarity.