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  2. Canon (music) - Wikipedia

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    A puzzle canon, riddle canon, or enigma canon is a canon in which only one voice is notated and the rules for determining the remaining parts and the time intervals of their entrances must be guessed. [44] "The enigmatical character of a [puzzle] canon does not consist of any special way of composing it, but only of the method of writing it ...

  3. List of variations on Pachelbel's Canon - Wikipedia

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    Suzannah Clark, a music professor at Harvard, connected the piece's resurgence in popularity to the harmonic structure, a common pattern similar to the romanesca.The harmonies are complex, but combine into a pattern that is easily understood by the listener with the help of the canon format, a style in which the melody is staggered across multiple voices (as in "Three Blind Mice"). [1]

  4. Category:Canons (music) - Wikipedia

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  5. Round (music) - Wikipedia

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    "Up and Down This World Goes Round", three voice round by Matthew Locke. [1] Play ⓘ. A round (also called a perpetual canon [canon perpetuus], round about or infinite canon) is a musical composition, a limited type of canon, in which multiple voices sing exactly the same melody, but with each voice beginning at different times so that different parts of the melody coincide in the different ...

  6. Pachelbel's Canon - Wikipedia

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    Pachelbel's Canon (also known as the Canon in D, P 37) is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. The canon was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue, known as Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo. Both movements are in the key of D major.

  7. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical genres within the context of classical music, organized according to the corresponding periods in which they arose or became common. Various terms can be used to classify a classical music composition, mainly including genre, form , compositional technique and style.

  8. Prolation canon - Wikipedia

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    Facsimile of Dodekachordon, Glareanus, p 442. In music, a prolation canon (also called a mensuration canon or proportional canon) is a type of canon, a musical composition wherein the main melody is accompanied by one or more imitations of that melody in other voices.

  9. List of musical works in unusual time signatures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.