Thursday, January 8, 2009

One more canon on Fux...

Busy day today-- errands, lessons, rehearsals...

So, I gave myself a relatively easy task for my canon. I used the Fux cantus as, of all things, a cantus firmus and wrote a little trio for two violins and cello with the violin parts in canon. It's not in the style described in Fux's Gradus but rather more like a trio sonata in style and texture. I suppose that I could have figured the bass...

The one license that I allowed myself was the C# in measure 3 in the comes. I needed it for the harmony.

Tomorrow, we get away from Fux for a while.

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