Chapter 13 Many Voices: Creating and Recreating Musical Canons

Musical Canons

Music recognized as extraordinary, worth persevering

Canon

From Ancient Greek term, measure of excellence

Different genres of repertoires…

Have their own cannons (rock canon, jazz canon, etc)

Western classical music traditions..

Focus of enjoyment of music concept begin in the late eighteenth century

Notion of

“Genius”

Western classical music traditions also…

work worthy of repeated hearings and preservation

Canons are

Controversial, what they include or exclude

Music shared across time and space…

Written down, or recorded

Canons are not static

Preserve music of the past, embrace other repertories of previous years, and traditions develop and expand

Many Voices

will consider individuals, traditions presently outside the established canon

Also many voices (2)

Will consider music and performances that engage the cannon in nontraditional innovative ways