Evening in the Palace of Reason

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Evening in the Palace of Reason

• Musical Offering, Time Line, and Places of
  Interest Part 1

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The Stage
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Fugue

• A piece of music based on canonic imitation (with
  one voice or part chasing another).
• Dating as far back as 14th c. and culminating in
  the works of J.S. Bach, a fugue can be strict,
  like a canon, or imitative. Musicians disagree on
  whether or not fugue is a form or kind of music.

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The Musical Offering Crab Canon for 2 voices
perf.forwardbackward
left-to-right
r-to-l
all r-to-l
twiceforward-backward
Canon 1. a 2 cancrizans
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Canones diversiCanon a 2 (for two voices)

• Go to http//schillerinstitut.dk/moweb/canon1sol.h
  tml
• Listen to the first voice (left-to-right)
• Listen to the Royal theme backwards
  (right-to-left)
• Listen to the whole canon backwards.
• Listen to the canon played twice -- first
  forwards, and then backwards.
• Listen to the performance

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More Music

• Perpetual Canon for 4 voices, BWV 1073 (p. 122)
• Commemorating the birth of Bachs godchild
• Example of a canon that blends counterpoint
  (reason/intellect) and beauty (emotion/intuition)

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French music

• Jean Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764)
• Courante (running-like dance step), 2d movement
  from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
  (Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin)
• Composed in 1728 (Bach was 43 Frederick the
  Great was 16)

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Work Cited

• Canon 1. a 2 cancrizans (J. Bach, Musical
  Offering). Ilustration. Nau.edu. 1996. Northern
  Arizona University, Flagstaff. 3 Nov. 2007
  lthttp//jan.ucc.nau.edu/?tas3/.htmlgt.