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The Daily Book of Classical Music
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The Daily Book of Classical Music

by Leslie Chew, Scott Spiegelberg, Dwight DeReiter, Cathy Doheny, Colin Gilbert, Greenwood, Travers Huff, Susanna Loewy, Melissa Maples, Jeff McQuilkin
September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Walter Foster
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image DAY 122 COMPOSITIONAL FORMS

Canon

THE CHASE IS ON!

While children are generally discouraged from playing with cannons (that go boom), one of their first experiences with music is a popular canon (that goes every which way). Row Row Row Your Boat takes a single melodic line and creates wonderful counterpoint by staggering the entrances of that line. The generation of complex polyphony from a single melodic idea is the whole point of canon. The number of these imitating voices varies depending on the structure of the melody. Row Row Row Your Boat and Frère Jacques can have four staggered voices, whereas Pachelbel’s Canon in D has three ...

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