Talk:Canon (music)

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Contents 1 Proposed outline 2 Region 3 identify canon? 4 meaning of the Old French word "canon"

[edit] Proposed outline

My proposed outline for the tangled musical canon section:

intro

I. History
II. Types of canons
 A. Number of voices
 B. Interval at which follower starts
 C. Direction in which follower moves
  1. Inversion or "mirror"
  2. Retrograde
 D. Mensuration and tempo canons
 E. Other types of canons
III. Contemporary use of canons

Hyacinth

[edit] Region

Canons at the fourth and fifth in African music are mentioned in Akpabot, "Functional Music of the Ibibio", p.89. (van der Merwe 1989, p.188) Hyacinth 07:01, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] identify canon?

We were singing a canon in my school choir with a song that went ... if all the children of the world lived in peace or something.... could somebody tell me how it goes?? cause I forgot it.

[edit] meaning of the Old French word "canon"

The article says that Old French "canon" meant "leaned". I think this is a typo: didn't it mean "learned"? --dveej

You're absolutely correct; oops! I fixed it. Antandrus (talk) 16:23, 18 September 2005 (UTC)