Search Guide

Search Instructions
+Keyword used for AND matching
-Keyword used for negative matching
*Keyword used for wildcard matching
"This Keyword" used for phrase matching
Tips
If you only match one result, you will be taken directly to your search results
You can search the forums, or music sections, or switch between results at will
YC will remember your latest search type choice
Titles of music submissions and forum posts pop up directly as you type, but only as suggestions
Pressing "tab" autocompletes a phrase. Tab/Enter will most likely take you to the result directly
Suggestions
Type the name of a member to find all music or post submission results by that member
View results in the autocomplete instead, and make your choice. Then click the result, and press enter
Use the search to discover topics with few posts or reviews. Bring life back to a post or music submission

music
forum

View New Content

Javascript Disabled Detected

You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality.

Submitter

NihilNominis
View other files from this member

File Information

Submitted: Jan 12 2012 04:21 AM
Last Updated: Jan 12 2012 04:30 AM
File Size: Unknown
Views: 857
Downloads: 71
Genre: Baroque Music
Sub Genre: Futurism
Form: Canon

We also suggest ...

	Nocturne in G Minor for piano, Op. 18 - reviews: (56)
	Composition for solo piano (minimalistic modern classical) - reviews: (13)
	3 little dances for piano solo - reviews: (5)
	Keyboard Suite in d minor - reviews: (7)
	Variation no 1 - reviews: (3)
	Organ Prelude in a Baroque Style (based on "In dulci jubilo") - reviews: (4)
	Piano Sonata No. 1 (2012) - reviews: (14)
	Interludio e quasi Fuga (piano solo) - reviews: (8)
	Toccata & Ricarcare (Fugue) - reviews: (4)
	Piano Solo - reviews: (10)
	The Rainbow-like Impression (Mavrična impresija) for piano solo - reviews: (8)
	Piano Sonata No. 4 in E minor (Northanger Sonata), Op. 25 - 1st movement - reviews: (40)
	Passacaglia, Cadenza and Fugue in Dm (80 Variations on a Modulating Theme) - reviews: (22)
	Variation No.1 - reviews: (1)
	Theme and Variation on a Mongolian Traditional song Destined Lover - reviews: (4)
	Variations on Russian Folk Song - reviews: (1)
	romance for piano in C#minor - reviews: (7)

Canonic Variation on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video.

Tracks

0

An upwardly modulating canon (by fifths) for three voices. The theme is the opening bars of Tallis' motet, "If Ye Love Me".

I want to obey the rules of strict counterpoint, so by all means correct any errors you find, but in this canon I was working specifically on developing melodious, independent countermelodies with a "life of their own," so to speak.

I also tried to maintain a contrapuntal style throughout which at least reminded me of Tudor polyphony (my first drafts tried to turn false relations into a method of transposing, but in the end I went for something more conservative).

jrcramer

Jan 12 2012 06:52 AM

i like the chromatism here, creating a interesting progression. nice as a short exercise. but if you want this to be a standalone piece, I would work on the ending and provide some alternating stuff.

NihilNominis

Jan 12 2012 11:51 AM

Thanks for the review! Yes, it is just a simple canon, but one whose counterpoint happens to transpose itself---an exercise.

As to the ending, that was supposed to mirror the sustained sixth ending one often hears in music of Tallis' period.

With both of these canons, my aim is soon to progress to fugue. I know my theory, but thanks to classes have had precious little time to try it out in practice.

NihilNominis

Jan 12 2012 12:03 PM

Although it's cool how simply changing key and having the subject introduced at different places with each key change makes the piece, if you aren't listening too carefully, sound more "interesting" and feel nearly fugal.