短編映画『ミケが来た夏 2014』 野良猫物語、~野良猫ミケが家猫になるまで~パッヘルベルカノン

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短編映画『ミケが来た夏2014』 パッヘルベル・カノン/日本白猫愛好協会

ある日、一匹の雌の野良猫がデッキにやってくるようになった。数年後、野良猫は一匹だけ、子猫を連れてくるようになった。三毛猫だった。住人は、その子猫に「ミケ」という名を与えた。ミケはいつしか母から独立して、その家の家猫になっていた。翌年6月、ミケは早くも出産した。3匹の子はすくすくと育ち、そのうちの一匹のメスは翌年3月24日、同じく3匹の子を産んだ。わずか2年でミケは孫ができたのだ。その年、ミケは2度目の出産も経験した。ミケファミリーは果てしなく増殖を繰り返してゆく。

Pachelbel's Canon is the name commonly given to a canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel in his Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo (German: Kanon und Gigue für 3 Violinen mit Generalbaß) (PWC 37, T. 337, PC 358), sometimes referred to as Canon and Gigue in D or simply Canon in D. Neither the date nor the circumstances of its composition are known, and the oldest surviving manuscript copy of the piece dates from the 19th century.

Pachelbel's Canon, like Pachelbel's other works, although popular during his lifetime, soon went out of style, and remained in obscurity for centuries thereafter. A 1968 arrangement and recording of it by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra became unexpectedly popular over the next decade, and in the 1970s the piece began to be recorded by many ensembles; by the early 1980s its presence as background music was deemed inescapable.[1] From the 1970s to the early 2000s, elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, were used in a variety of pop music songs. Since the 1980s, it has also been used frequently in weddings and funeral ceremonies in the Western world.

The canon was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue. Both movements are in the key of D major. Although a true canon at the unison in three parts, it also has elements of a chaconne.