Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quartet - Digital Download SKU: A0.1111552 Composed by Alan Edgar. Baroque. 12 pages. Alan Edgar Ted Moon #713844. Published by Alan Edgar Ted Moon (A0.1111552). I have shamelessly combined ideas from three famous pieces popular for funerals: Pachelbel's Canon, Elgar's Nimrod from the Enigma Variations and Chopin's Marche Funebre from his 2nd Pianoforte Sonata. So it is a passacaglia, having a solemn repeating 4 bars in the bass; 8 variations on a 4 bar phrase; and an accompanied canon having each variation repeated twice, in the second oboe and clarinet after delays, while a new variation appears in the 1st Oboe. All in D minor, but a tierce de Picardie ends the piece. Only 3 minutes: after all that work!