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uh...i don't think folk are used to listening to canon-based forms. these days, following on the practices that have been dominant since the 19th century in euro-classical music, and across most pop and pop related forms since, folk anchor themselves to harmonic underpinnings and are not thinking in terms of development. there's alot of music out there that's not like this--beethoven is often cited as the pivot figure, so before him in general, a different relation to development. within euro-music, that approach to thinking about sound (and by extension listening, but obviously it doesn't necessarily follow) resurfaces with schoenberg.
there's something kinda cool about a crab canon, like there is about palindromes in general.
it's a little odd to abstract this from the musical offering.
and stranger still to read that it "sucks"
the music offering is a curious piece, a kind of intellectual show-stopper offered to frederick the great i think. who was a musician. so it's musician's music, and it's also a bit of courtly flattery--and it's also very much about the rules that shaped how canon works, so is a virtuoso piece of composition.
depends how you look at it, i suppose.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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