Mensuration and tempo canons In a mensuration canon (also known as a prolation canon, or a proportional canon), the follower imitates the leader by some rhythmic proportion.

Number of voices A canon of two voices may be called a canon in two, similarly a canon of x voices would be called a canon in x .

Another standard designation is Canon Two in One , which means two voices in one canon.

The follower may double the rhythmic values of the leader (augmentation or sloth canon) or it may cut the rhythmic proportions in half (diminution canon).

Canon Four in Two means four voices with two simultaneous canons.

Much of this set of traditions and knowledge is collected in the Western canon.

Canon 27 Nuns were prohibited from singing the Divine Office in the same choir with monks.

The seventh canon regards procedures for receiving certain heretics into the church.

The first canon is an important dogmatic condemnation of all shades of Arianism, and also of Macedonianism and Apollinarianism.

During the Gothic era, the classical aesthetical canon of beauty was rejected as sinful.

These councils were under the authority of St. Augustine, who regarded the canon as already closed.

Only in the 16th century did the word canon begin to be used to describe the musical form created by such a procedure .

Canon 20 Kings and princes were ordered to dispense justice in consultation with the bishops.

The widespread interest in women's writing is related to a general reassessment and expansion of the literary canon.

The second canon renewed the Nicene legislation imposing upon the bishops the observance of diocesan and patriarchal limits.

Octastyle Octastyle buildings had eight columns they were considerably rarer than the hexastyle ones in the classical Greek architectural canon.

The Pali form of the word, sutta is used exclusively to refer to the scriptures of the early Pali Canon, the only texts recognized by Theravada Buddhism as canonical.

Simple A simple canon (also known as a round) imitates the leader perfectly at the octave or unison.

External links Anatomy of a Canon The Musical Offering A Musical Pedagogical Workshop by J.S.

The Abhidhamma Pitaka () is the last of the three pitakas (Pali for baskets ) constituting the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism.

Elaborate use of canon technique Josquin des Prez, Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales , Agnus Dei 2 One voice with the words 'ex una voce tres' (three voice parts out of one), a mensuration canon in three voices.

In the Pāli canon, the bodhisatta is also described as someone who is still subject to birth, illness, death, sorrow, defilement, and delusion.

Types of canon The most rigid and ingenious forms of canon are not strictly concerned with pattern but also with content.

The Theravadins too refuted the Sarvastivadins and Sautrantikas (and other schools) on the grounds that their theories were in conflict with the non substantialism of the canon.

The composers and lyricists spotlighted on each set, taken together, represent the greatest part of the cultural canon known as the Great American Songbook .

Table canon A Table canon is a retrograde and inverse canon meant to be placed on a table in between two musicians, who both read the same line of music in opposite directions.

Many such canons were composed during the Renaissance, particularly in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries Johannes Ockeghem wrote an entire mass (the Missa prolationum ) in which each section is a mensuration canon, and all at different speeds and entry intervals.

Few in his audiences are regular classical music attendees and it could be seen as promising that, via Rieu, they are listening to standards of the classical canon.

With the serialization of Saint Seiya Next Dimension , Kurumada removed Overture from the canon of the Saint Seiya universe, although some elements that appeared in it remain in the continuity.

Josquin des Prez, Missa L'homme armé sexti toni , Agnus Dei 2 two simultaneous canons in the four upper voices, and at the same time a crab canon in the two lower voices.

Suffering's causes and solution The Four Noble Truths The teachings on the Four Noble Truths are regarded as central to the teachings of Buddhism, and are said to provide a conceptual framework for Buddhist thought.

Canon 28 No church was to be left vacant more than three years from the death of the bishop secular canons who excluded from episcopal election regular canons or monks were condemned.

Prior to this, in the 1970s, musicologists were beginning to discover women composers and performers, and had begun to review concepts of canon, genius, genre and periodization from a feminist perspective.

Canon issues At the end of the first season of , all licenses for Star Trek spin off fiction were renegotiated, and the animated series was essentially decanonized by Gene Roddenberry's office.

Spain is one of the countries with the most number of laureates with the Nobel Prize in Literature, and with Latin American laureates they made the Spanish language literature one of the most laureates of all.

In his book Nirvana The Stories Behind Every Song , Chuck Crisafulli writes that the song stands out in the Cobain canon as a song with a very specific genesis and a very real subject .

The Sutta Pitaka ( or Suttanta Pitaka cf Sanskrit ) is the first of the three divisions of the Tripitaka or Pali Canon, the Pali collection of Buddhist writings, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.

The fantasia, the ricercar, and later, the canon and fugue (the contrapuntal form par excellence ) all feature imitative counterpoint, which also frequently appears in choral works such as motets and madrigals.

Among the facts established within the animated series that were called into question by the official canon issue was its identification of Robert April as the first captain of the USS Enterprise in the episode The Counter Clock Incident .

On June 27, 2007, Star Trek 's official site incorporated information from The Animated Series into its library section, clarifying, finally, that the animated series is part of the Star Trek canon.

Jonassohn and Björnson are critical of some of these studies, arguing that they are too expansive, and conclude that the academic discipline of genocide studies is too young to have a canon of work on which to build an academic paradigm.

President of the United Federation of Planets The President of the United Federation of Planets (informally, the Federation President or the President of the Federation) is the elected head of state and head of government of the United Federation of Planets.

Literature In the traditional literary canon, literature under Augustus, along with that of the late Republic, has been viewed as the Golden Age of Latin literature, embodying the classical ideals of unity of the whole, the proportion of the parts, and the careful articulation of an apparently seamless composition.

The orthodox Theravada position rejects this however there are passages in the Samyutta Nikaya of the Pali Canon (the collection of texts on which the Theravada tradition is based), that seem to lend support to the idea that the Buddha taught of an intermediate stage between one life and the next.

Her Duke Ellington Songbook placed Ellington firmly in the canon known as the Great American Songbook, and the 1960s saw Fitzgerald and the 'Duke' meet on the Côte d'Azur for the 1966 album Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur , and in Sweden for The Stockholm Concert, 1966 .