10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANON CANCRIZANS»
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1
Stainer and Barrett's Dictionary of musical terms
Sir John Stainer, William Alexander Barrett. CANON CANON CANCRIZANS.
CANONE CHIUSO CANTO A CAPPELLA. CANTO ARMONICO CANTUS
MENSURABILIS. CANTUS. Fragments of canon by augmentation and diminution
are not ...
Sir John Stainer, William Alexander Barrett, 1898
2
The Oxford Dictionary of Music
Canon cancrizans is a type in which the imitating v. gives out the melody
backwards ('cancrizans' from Lat. cancer = crab; but crabs move sideways). Other
names for it are canon per recte et retro (or rectus et inversus) and retrograde
canon.
Michael Kennedy, Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Joyce Kennedy, 2012
3
Cassell's Family Magazine
When the Oxford University desired to confer a musical doctorate upon the
composer of the Creation, Haydn sent in as his "exercise" the following six-bar
Canon cancrizans to mark his appreciation of the honour : — Ex. S. -, OF THE
HOUSE ...
4
The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music
'Canon cancrizans' is a canon in which one part or more proceed normally while
another one or more go backwards. In serial music the reversed form of the
series is sometimes called cancrizans instead of the more usual retrograde.
Candide ...
5
The Art of Music: A Comprehensive Library of Information for ...
In Okeghem's school is found the so-called 'crab canon,' canon cancrizans, which
is first sung through in the usual way from beginning to end, then repeated
backward. There is also a canon which, like the canon cancrizans, is to be sung ...
Daniel Gregory Mason, 1915
6
The Art of Music: A narrative history of music
In Okeghem's school is found the so-called 'crab canon,' canon cancrizans, which
is first sung through in the usual way from beginning to end, then repeated
backward. There is also a canon which, like the canon cancrizans, is to be sung ...
Daniel Gregory Mason, 1915
7
The Choir: A Weekly Journal of Music, Literature and Art
The technical name for such a composition is *' Canon cancrizans." The root is
Latin, and means retrograde or backward motion. We subjoin it, as it may be of
interest for many to have this little composition of the great Haydn, which we
believe ...
8
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern ...
In this sense the house — his house — turned out to be, for him, a space as
fugitive and phantasmagorical as the "center" of a canon cancrizans whose
presence we noted some pages earlier. And so the unknowable house had to
disappear ...
Antonio Benitez-Rojo, 1997
9
Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach
These include canons notated as only one line (chiuso, in corpo, or a mente) or
notated in score (aperto, in partita, or risoluto); circle canons (infinito or circolare)
or non-circular ones (finito); and crab canon (cancrizans, opisthobatus, and per ...
10
The Lives of Haydn and Mozart,: With Observations on ...
... London, in 1794; — his engagement with Gallini ; — Mrs. Billington; — his
portrait taken by Reynolds; — receives a diploma from Oxford ; — Canon
cancrizans ; — Haydn returns home ; — state of his fortune. LETTER XVI. Masses
of Haydn ...
Stendhal, Giuseppe Carpani, Théophile Frédéric Winckler, 1818
