crab canon
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crab canon
n
(Classical Music) music a canon in which the imitating voice repeats the notes of the theme in reverse order. Also called: retrograde canon or canon cancrizans
[from the mistaken medieval notion that crabs move backwards]
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Translations
canone cancrizzante