The exact circumstances of the German-titled work's publication are unknown.
Yet Johann Mattheson, writing some decades after Pachelbel's death, claimed that Musicalische Ergötzung was first published in 1691.
The collection contains six parties, or suites: These are not the exact titles in the original published edition but "normalized" into a more modern international terminology.
The technique of scordatura (alternative tuning used for the open strings) is applied to the violin parts of all suites, but, unlike contemporary composers such as Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Pachelbel used it sparingly, not to produce special effects but to teach the amateur performers (for whom the work was probably intended) the basics of this technique.
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