On a subject not unlike the theme given him by Frederick the Great, Bach has heaped one polyphonic marvel upon another in a manner to exploit to the limits of technique and imagination every possible device of fugal and canonic development.
It is, however, canonicby accident rather than in its original intention.
All these devices are also independent of the canonic idea, since they are so many methods of transforming themes in themselves and need not always be used in contrapuntal combination.
All these devices are, in skilful hands, quite definite in their effect upon the ear, and their expressive power is undoubtedly due to their special canonic nature.
The only remaining canonic device which figures in classical music is that known as cancrizans, in which the imitating part reproduces the leader backwards.
The earliest canonic form is the rondel or rota as practised in the 12th century.
The early practice of building polyphonic designs on a voice-part confined to a given plain-song or popular melody furnishes the origin for every contrapuntal principle that is not canonic, and soon develops into a canonic principle in itself.
A long exciting crescendo leads to a complete statement of the main theme of the Finale, with a canonic treatment of which the work ends, e.
If we turn from a frottola to a motet by the same composer, we meet at once the device of canonic imitation and with it a clearly different artistic purpose.
He paid much less attention to rigid canonic style than his predecessors had done because it was not suited to the kind of music which he felt was fitting for his church.
The Canonic Variations on the melody are published by Novello bk.
Einige kanonische Verdaederungen, "Canonic Variations on the Christmas Hymn 'Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her,' for an Organ with two manuals and pedal.
The work contains five canonicvariations of the utmost ingenuity.
Composed at Coethen, they are among Bach's masterpieces in this form and display fugal and canonic writing which is both natural and full of character.
The element of canonic imitation occurs in his works in wholly new form.
It was an application of the Netherlandish art of canonic imitation, combined with modern tonality.
Dufay is also credited with having written purecanonic imitations without descending to the level of the rota, with its endless phrases.
Canonic imitation is one in which the imitation is strict, the repeating voice exactly repeating the melody of the principal.
He made a beginning in canonic imitation, Coussemaker and Naumann, after him, giving examples from a composition of his called "Posuit Adjutorium.
Martin Luther said of him that "Other composers make their music where their notes take them [referring to their canonic devices]; but Josquin takes his music where he wills.
The fugue was the creation of this epoch, and while based upon the general idea of canonic imitation, after the Netherlandish ideal, it differed from their productions in several highly significant respects.
Polyphony comprehends the most recondite elements of musical theory, but its essence consists of one leading concept--that of canonic imitation.
Okeghem was a very ingenious and laborious composer, who carried the art of canonic imitation to a much finer point than had been reached before his time.
Some Canonic Variations on the Christmas hymn "Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her" (244).
I have already endeavored to explain the nature of canonic writing.
He paid much less attention to rigid canonic style than his predecessors had done, because it was not suited to the kind of music which he felt was fitting for his church.
During the whole period of church counterpoint, which never lost the radical elements of its character until after Legrenzi's day, music felt the influence of the old chant and the early study of the canonic style.
Thus they produced, in a series of developments occupying nearly 700 years, the most closely knit and purely intellectual group of musical forms, those classed as canonic or fugal.
But even the canonic forms were modified by the irrepressible spirit of romanticism.
Okeghem and his contemporaries completely explored the resources ofcanonic writing.
Pierre de l'Hospital, chancellor of Brittany, who is to preside over the civil hearings after the canonic judgment, assists Jean de Malestroit.
Then comes a Lento in six-four time based on the celebrated Marlbrook song, a dignified movement containing, among other canonic imitations, one in the ninth.
With regard to style of writing for the clavier--a few canonic imitations excepted--there is no real polyphony.
It must have had a considerable number of adherents, for the tradition which makes the Prophet responsible for it is to be found in the canonic collections.
One modern biographer, who is shocked at his perjury to the prior, would no doubt have absolved him if he had married the lass against his canonic vows.
He justly appeals to the sayings of the apostles and to the canonic laws.
From the standpoint of faith and of the canonic laws the argument of Agobard and the other bishops was irrefutable, and had Emperor Louis the Pious set store by this logic, he would have had to extirpate the Jews, root and branch.
Jews also farmed the taxes, and obtained through this privilege a certain power over the Christians, although this was distinctly contrary to the provisions of canonic law.
Amolo invited all the bishops of the country to do their utmost to re-introduce the old canonic restrictions against the Jews.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: canonical; divine; religious
