music canon

C34105
concept

A music canon is a contrapuntal composition in which a melody is imitated and repeated by one or more voices entering successively according to a fixed rule.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
music canon canonical 2
two-voice canon 2
four-voice canon 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: music canon
Generated description
A music canon is a contrapuntal composition in which a melody is imitated and repeated by one or more voices entering successively according to a fixed rule.

Instances (5)

Instance Via concept surface
Canon a 2 two-voice canon
Canon a 2 per motum contrarium two-voice canon
Canon a 4 per augmentationem et diminutionem four-voice canon
The Source 100 Best Rap Albums
Disney Parks music canon