The second half of the album is three pieces collectively titled "Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel."
"Isn't Life Strange" is a 1972 single by the English progressive rock band The Moody Blues, which was based on Pachelbel's Canon In D.
He is best known for his song "Canon Rock", a rock arrangement of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D.
The group has released seven CDs of baroque music, mostly by little-known and little-recorded European composers such as Christlieb Siegmund Binder, Jacques Aubert, N. Lebègue, J. A. Reincken, and Johann Pachelbel.
One of the four available background musics in Utopia is Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D, a classical melody.
Johann Sebastian Bach | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Johann Strauss II | St. Johann in Tirol | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi | Johann Albert Fabricius | Johann Christian Bach | Johann Georg Wagler | Pachelbel's Canon | Johann Pachelbel | Johann Nepomuk Hummel | Johann Gottfried Herder | Johann Nestroy | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach | Johann Homann | Johann Friedrich Böttger | Johann Kuhnau | Johann Heinrich Lambert | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | Johann Wilhelm von Müller | Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine | Johann Mattheson | Johann Jakob Engel | Johann Gustav Droysen | Johann Gottfried Schadow | Johann Georg Faust | Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt | Johann Christoph Adelung |
Organ preludes include works by Johann Pachelbel, Johann Heinrich Scheidemann, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Franz Liszt, Henk Badings, and the third of Max Reger's Fifty-two Chorale Preludes, Op. 67, composed in 1902.
Georg Böhm is credited as the inventor of the chorale partita, and Johann Pachelbel and Johann Sebastian Bach also wrote many of these works.
Most of the works with ground bass use some type of romanesca pattern, consisting of a line descending by fourth, rising by step, then descending again by fourth or fifth, rising by step, and so forth (the Pachelbel Canon, probably written several decades after Picchi's death, is probably the most famous example of variations over a romanesca bass).