When we’re primary skool kids the Music teacher would be teaching you different music genres and among the many would be canon.
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So here’s the clinical definition:
In music, a canon is a contrapuntal composition that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g. quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader (or dux), while the imitative melody, which is played in a different voice, is called the follower (or comes). The follower must imitate the leader, either as an exact replication of its rhythms and intervals or some transformation thereof (see "Types of canon", below). Repeating canons in which all voices are musically identical that repeat are called rounds – "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "Frère Jacques" being widely known examples.
Well never mind abt the exact categorisation. I’m not an expert. But this kind of canon-y quality does a special thing to me. Sometimes it gives me a sense of tranquility, sometimes it builds a sense of ‘regulation’ in my messed-up mind. It spirals, it whirlpools. It allows me to indulge in a certain emotion or thought or state of mind.
Some of my playlist would be:
秘密– 張震嶽
證據– 楊乃文
哭了– 范曉萱
說走就走– 陶吉吉
五月天 - 知足, 溫柔, 恆星的恆心
龍捲風, 瓦解, 倒帶, 藉口– 周杰倫
Sing-along song – 方大同
As long as you love me – BSB (wakakaka)
I knew I loved you – Savage Garden
So here we are – Bloc Party
Champagne Supernova – Oasis (whom I’m gonna see tonite, nahnahnah)
Pachelbel’s Canon in D…(because of 我的野蠻女友, obviously)
these songs, i can easily play one of them in loop for the entire night. (until someone next to me complains)
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This is the latest one that keeps spinning in my head.
