What is a Canon? (Hint: An extremely strict, fugue by the rulebook!)
Canons are a different type of musical technique from fugues, and today we will take a look at some of the most important works composed in this manner! Let me know if you have Canons that you would like me to address! Hint: Bach wrote some of the most beautiful and complex!
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We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!
- What questions do you have on this topic?
- Any particular area you would like me to focus on?
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I will be working when this takes place, but I will watch afterwards! Thank you! I love the topics you choose to explore!
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Thanks again for that lovely session on the Fugue and for going through the lovely Bb-minor fugue! For this session, I was wondering if you could please look at a canon from the Russian school perhaps? Taneyev is said to have mastered the contrapuntal art and wrote a two volume treatise! As we all know he also trained the likes of Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Stanchinsky, Medtner etc. If I had to pick one canon I would absolutely love to see through would be Stanchinsky’s lovely canon in E Myxolydian or any of his modal canons. Or as I said, indeed anything Russian coming from the Taneyev school!
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What an interesting lesson! Juxtaposing the Bach canon (27) with Mozart's six-part canon was quite fun! The Clementi example was familiar to me because it is on your first CD of Clementi!
"Summer is Coming" was very pretty!
Parag Mehta Thank you for mentioning Stanchinsky! As Dominic said, and I concur, "Thank you for introducing this beautiful piece to us. I am very glad you mentioned him!" What a mesmerizing piece.
Rachmaninoff canon was beautiful, too. Yes, melancholy.
Wonderful insights and questions, Parag, Thurmond, Roy. Thank you!
Thank you for ending this lesson with another listening of "Summer is Coming". . . Delightful!
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