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Canon, an Uncommon card
In music, a canon is a contrapuntal compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 50,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Canon quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Canon card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The follower must imitate the leader, either as an exact replication of its rhythms and intervals or some ______ thereof.
Answer
transformation. The follower must imitate the leader, either as an exact replication of its rhythms and intervals or some transformation thereof. From the Canon article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Aachen Cathedral. Aachen Cathedral 110,000 · Raymond Loewy 70,000 · Canon 50,000 · Skillet discography 38,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The initial melody is called the leader, while the imitative melody, which is played in a different voice, is called the follower.
- The follower must imitate the leader, either as an exact replication of its rhythms and intervals or some transformation thereof.
- Repeating canons in which all voices are musically identical are called rounds, familiar singalong versions of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "Frère Jacques" that call for each successive group of voices to begin the same song a bar or two after the previous group began are popular examples.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Canon article was read about 50,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Canon
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- Skillet discographyUncommon · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 75
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Canon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hyacinth, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
