| But its canonic chase has more anxiety than elegance, for each time it starts to flow it soon works its way to an explosive outburst. |
| A third passage features a two-part canonic effect, grouping the sopranos with the tenors, and the altos with the basses. |
| The work mixes long, singing lines with fugal and canonic sections. |
| The canonic male point of view is put in question by being reproduced, and so to speak re-framed, within a female artist's discourse. |
| For the canonic defense to work, everything substantively provocative in the offending art work has to be played down or simply denied. |
| Enlivened by accents in popular style, the writing includes several canonic sequences. |
