cancrizans

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04 Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Canon 1 a 2 (cancrizans). mp3

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  1. 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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  • 04 Savall, Le Concert des Nations - Canon 1 a 2 (cancrizans). mp3 —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • - J.S. Bach - Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079 - VII Canon a 2 cancrizans —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • Haydn's "exercise " for the degree was the following "Canon cancrizans, a tre," set to the words, "Thy voice, O harmony, is divine figure: a musical score excerpt This was subsequently used for the first of the Ten Commandments, the whole of which he set to canons during his stay in London. —  Haydn
 

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  1. from Middle Latin cancrizans. present participle of cancrizare, walk backward like a crab, from Latin cancer (cancr-), a crab.
 

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