🗺️ Can-Can

Tap Play the map and follow the stops. It lasts about 46 seconds. Tap any stop to start from there.

1. Get ready. Ding, ding! The music is warming up.
2. Stamp, stamp. Listen, the same note over and over, stamp, stamp!
3. The can-can!. Here's the famous tune, fast and loud!
4. Even faster. The tune again, and it's getting faster!

For grown-ups: the composition is in the public domain (written 1858). Peabody’s band plays it from notes read out of a published score, simplified to one tune line with chords, and some stops are played by a different band so the change is easy to hear. Read from: https://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/classical/Offenbach_Jacques/Galop.abc (John Chambers, 2014, with chords), the can-can tune checked against https://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/thisoldtractor.com/Cancan.abc (Carl Allison, in F). Keys as written (D, then the can-can in G); grace notes left out; its first strain left out (one bar of it reads wrongly); the stamping bars' last chord and the intro's chords harmonised here, the rest from the source.