{"id":3733,"date":"2012-09-17T06:04:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:58:53","slug":"puzzle-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3733","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I came across this puzzle canon the other day. Take a look at the following melody and try to come up with the proper place and interval to begin the repeat so that it creates a canon<\/a> with no “dissonant” intervals (no 2nds, 4ths, or 7ths) and no “incorrect” voice leadings (no parallel 5ths or octaves).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here is a PDF version of this melody<\/a> if you want to try to work it out a bit. One hint to help you is that the second voice doesn’t enter at the pitch E, but rather a diatonic (no accidentals) transposition starting on a different pitch. See if you can figure it out. My solution after the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Here’s my solution. I started it on the beginning of the 3rd measure at the interval of a 5th (and octave) lower. I found a couple of others that sort of worked but occasionally had dissonant intervals or objectionable parallel motion. Some of the more dissonant solutions had some interesting sounds, but wouldn’t be stylistic.<\/p>\n\n\n

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What did you find? Did you get a different solution or the same one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across this puzzle canon the other day. Take a look at the following melody and try to come up with the proper place and interval to begin the repeat so that it creates a canon with no “dissonant” intervals (no 2nds, 4ths, or 7ths) and no “incorrect” voice leadings (no parallel 5ths or … Continue reading Puzzle Canon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-Yd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8236,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/8236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}