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Noun Concept
Categories: All articles needing additional references, Polyphonic form, Articles with short description, Western classical music styles
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canon  Kánon  accompanied canon  al rovescio  caccia
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A contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts WordNet 3.0
English:
music
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A contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In music, a canon is a contrapuntal compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration. Wikipedia
A type of composition Wikipedia Disambiguation
Contrapuntal form of music involving a self-harmonizing theme with imitations offset in time Wikidata
A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round. Wiktionary
Piece of music. Wiktionary (translation)
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Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular. Wiktionary
IS A
musical composition
musical form
HAS PART
theme
HAS KIND
enigma canon
round
HAS INSTANCE
Leck mich im Arsch
Lovely Evening
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Trara, das tönt wie Jagdgesang
DE
Er ist die rechte Freudensonn
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
USES
counterpoint
imitation
BabelNet
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Kánon
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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canon
Wikipedia
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canon (music)
Wikidata
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canon
Wiktionary
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canon
Wikipedia Redirections
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accompanied canon, al rovescio, caccia (music), Canon: Two in One, Canon al rovescio, Canon by inversion, canon music, Cantanti enigmatici, Circular canon, comes (music), double canon (music), dux (music), Finite canon, free canon, Interval canon, inversion canon, Musical canon, puzzle canon, rhythmic canon, rovescio, simple canon, strict canon, Tempo canon
Wikidata Alias
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musical canon

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