Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Going or moving backward, like a crab: in music, used of a canon the subject of which is repeated in the answer backward instead of forward.
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Examples
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What I want to hear is the retrograde inversion in a 6-part crab canon cancrizans.
A familiar song, sung in English, with an amazing twist. Ann Althouse 2008
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Ives wrote in 1932, One variation was the theme in canon, put in three keys together, B-flat-E-flat-A-flat, and backwards the cancrizans of Hindemith who was at Yale?
"Classical" American Music, cont'd from July 5 post The Daily Growler 2006
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Haydn's "exercise" for the degree was the following "Canon cancrizans, a tre," set to the words, "Thy voice, O harmony, is divine."
Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902
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- J.S. Bach - Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079 - VII Canon a 2 cancrizans
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sarra commented on the word cancrizans
A canon (musical) which contains a reversal of its own theme. From Latin cancriz�?re, to walk backwards; see cancrine.
December 17, 2007
sionnach commented on the word cancrizans
A Gödel-Escher-Bach kind of conceit.
December 17, 2007
avivamagnolia commented on the word cancrizans
~to go backwards
~in music, crab form or crab canon: a cancrizans canon
January 17, 2009