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Since I used the term, I'll define it. A "rosalia" is a so-called "infinite canon" (basically, like a round). A mensural canon is a canon where the follower voices (the 'comes') are in some rhythmic expansion or contraction of the lead voice (the 'dux'). So, since the piece is built around a short loop and has the same melody repeated as rhythmic expansions, I termed it a mensural rosalia. Although, after just writing the above, I looked for confirmation of my definition of rosalia. The one definition I did find confirmed the repeating melody aspect, but tacked on an additional bit about each repetition being transposed by a half-step or whole-step from the previous repetition. Since there's no transposition in my piece, i guess it's not technically a rosalia, but since there are fugues in the 20th century that don't follow the "tonic subject, dominant answer" scheme, I guess I can still call it a rosalia. Well, a mensural rosalia. Hope I didn't muddy the waters too much... Cheers, Jon Southwood On 6/22/05, Edwin Hurwitz <edwin@indra.com> wrote: > PS What's a "mensural rosalia"? When I googled it, google asked me if > I meant "menstrual rosalia". > -- > > Edwin Hurwitz > Boulder CO > http://www.indra.com/~edwin > http://www.cafemontalban.com Location Recording Services > >