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  2. Canon (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, a canon is a contrapuntal ... musicological literature also uses the traditional Latin terms dux and comes for "leader" and "follower", respectively. ...

  3. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Literary work Author Comments Citations "7th Step" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One: Deborah Pardes: Angela's Ashes: Frank McCourt [29] "40" War: U2: The 40th Psalm of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament [30] "1984" Diamond Dogs: David Bowie: Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell

  4. Western canon - Wikipedia

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    A "canon" is a list of books considered to be "essential", and it can be published as a collection (such as Great Books of the Western World, Modern Library, Everyman's Library or Penguin Classics), presented as a list with an academic's imprimatur (such as Harold Bloom's [6]), or be the official reading list of a university.

  5. Category:Canons (music) - Wikipedia

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  6. Lists of music inspired by literature - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of articles, or subsections of articles, about music inspired by literature. [1] Musical settings of, or music inspired by, poems by Byron; Edgar Allan Poe and music; Music related to Anne Rice's novels; Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien [1] Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde; List of songs based on poems; Romeo and Juliet ...

  7. List of concert arias, songs and canons by Wolfgang Amadeus ...

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    Canon ad duodecimam: Confitebor tibi Domine for 3 voices; Canon. Ter voce ciemus: Thebana bella for 6 voices: unknown: Summer 1770 89a: 73i "Canon for 4 instruments" — April 1770 228: 515b "Ach! zu kurz" Double canon for 4 voices: unknown: before 24 June 1787 229: 382a "Sie ist dahin" Canon for 3 voices: Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 ...

  8. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Classic (or literary fiction): works with artistic/literary merit that are typically character-driven rather than plot-driven, following a character's inner story. They often include political criticism, social commentary, and reflections on humanity. [1] These works are part of an accepted literary canon and widely taught in schools. Coming-of-age

  9. 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]