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Article: Nancarrow's Canons: Projections of Temporal and Formal Structures.(Conlon Nancarrow )(Critical Essay)
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- June 22, 2000
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RARELY HAS A COMPOSER been devoted as persistently to the compositional technique of canon as Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). Some three-quarters of his fifty-one "Studies" for player piano feature canons, often strict canons of two to twelve voices lasting the duration of the piece. The studies, which were composed from the late 1940s through the mid-1990s, are brief but remarkably complex and compelling works. Despite their shared canonic organization they exhibit a wide range of rhythmic, textural, and formal structures. In a few instances Nancarrow's canons are traditional, in that the entrances and endings of the participating layers are staggered, and the layers ...
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