Four
Voice Canon #13 (“DIY
Canon”)
(for Daniel Goode)
Date: 2002.
Place: New Hampshire.
Comments: A general recipe and
theoretical
description of the previous canons and ideas for future canons, for
others to
realize freely. FVC #13 was written
initially for talks at Columbia University and Brooklyn College, and in
preparation for work on the Cold Blue CD. It was distributed at those
talks as
an invitation for other composers to freely use those ideas and create
their
own works. To date, a number of composers have done so, including,
George
Zelenz, Bo Bell, Ross Craig, Kyoko Kobayashi, Bruno Ruviaro, Stefan
Tomic,
Christian Jaksjo, Rizwan Mahmud, Masaki Kubo, Nick Didkovsky, Daniel
Goode, and
Nathan Davis (the latter three are on the Cold Blue CD, the Bell and
Zelenz
pieces can be downloaded at http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~larry/demos.midifiles.html).
There is a new CD on Pogus called DIY Canons, which contains these
pieces and others.
FVC#13 includes #14 (“Kid Canon”),#15 (“Shape Note Canon”), and #18 (“Trio Canon”) as examples.