Two-Part Canon at the 5th - Writing Canon
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Learn how to go about composing a strict canon at the 5th in two parts. This lesson explains the most useful technique for constructing a strict canon bar by bar, in such a way that the melodic line has shape and direction, while maintaining rhythmic independence and creating harmony & inessential notes that all blend together. Apart from learning to write canon at the 5th, this video teaches how to write good two part counterpoint.
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0:00 - Introduction to two-part canon at the 5th
0:55 - Planning
1:45 - Original head and tail
3:45 - Tried and tested canon method
13:51 - Playing the composed canon
14:13 - Conclusion
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Two-part harmony, four-part harmony, cantata, fugue, canon writing. Love this stuff. I could watch these tutorials all day.
Go for it!
One month ago this would have been out of my pay grade. After practicing the Rule of the Octave and practicing my cadences and sequences, I followed this with wide-eyed enthousiasm. You are really a great teacher, Gareth.
That’s most kind.
You are a really great teacher!!!
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Very clear. Thank you.
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I love your videos thank you ❤🙏
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Thanks Gareth... this is fantastic music technic taught by a truly great teacher.
You’re very kind
Thank you for this very useful video! Food for thought in the plane tomorrow...
Enjoy the video and your flight!
That was very clear. I'd never heard of the "head/tail" idea. I'm looking forward to incorporating your technique into a piece I'm working on.
Enjoy!
Magnificent!
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Sweet!
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Hello, thank you for your classes. One question: Wouldn't the F in bar seven in the right hand need to be an F# since it's B transposed up a fifth?
I’ve relaxed the strictness of the canon because of the cadence and in order to keep the piece in the home key.
Two-part canons at the fifth also work well with sequential harmonic patterns around the circle of fifths. Bach often does this in episodic sections of his fugues.
Absolutely
this is where I need to be
Excellent
Something you just sort of do in these demonstrations which is presumably down to your long years of work and resulting familiarity is that you put down a second line, with no further comment, which fits neatly with the first, e.g. the ascending crotchets in the bass of bar 7 which make consonant intervals with the on-the-beat quavers in the treble. Any suggestions for exercises to increase ones fluency in this sort of thinking?
The trick is always to think harmonically. Keep progressions strong, voice leading good, and every note justified as essential or non-essential.
Very nice and well explained. A question though - In a major key, when the second part comes in, the first chord would probably be a major V chord as it is here. In a minor key would you use a major V chord there or would you allow a minor V chord to preserve the minor feel?
It doesn’t have to begin with a V but even in a minor key a major V would be fine.
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I can smell some Bach in there in the faintest way, good job!
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