Double canon |

A double canon is a polyphonic combination of two canons on different topics. Often used in reprises or climaxes of double fugues and other polyphonic. forms, crowning the line of intensive development. D. to. can be finite (ending with a cadenza) and endless (returning to the beginning).

Double six-voice canon of the 8st category. N. Ya. Myaskovsky. XNUMXth symphony, movement I.

Both the first and second D. to. are divided into categories. In the canons of the 2st category, the distances between the introductions of the voices are equal, in the canons of the 4nd category they are different. A variety of endless canons on 5 topics are double endless canons-sequences, also divided into categories. There are also D. to. in circulation. D. to. there are 6-, XNUMX- and XNUMX-voice.

Double infinite canon-sequence of the first category. Yu. A. Shaporin. Passacaglia for piano.

Canon in circulation. Palestrina. Canonical Mass.

T. F. Müller