Visiting Canon Country

I spent the last 6 weeks or so exploring Canons. It was really fascinating for me to discover how Canons can “generate” the most interesting harmonies, depending on how you structure the repeat pattern. It was fun to try it out with one, two and three note repeat patterns.

You can read more about this experience and listen to the music I composed as a result via this link: https://www.rolfsmusic.com/book-chapters/chapter-6-canons

I also had to try my hand at writing a Crab Canon. You probably know what this is already but just in case it is a piece of music that is played by 2 instruments, one from the front and the other from the last note backwards. In this audio file I played the crab canon twice and then added a happy ending to it outside of the canon.