Scored for two violas, its four movements are strict canons, each characterized differently.

Scholars have speculated that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius who for the first time declared a strict canon of Christian scripture.

The tune is played in a strict canon, the most rigid musical law as one more symbol.

An example of a classical strict canon is the Minuet of Haydn's String Quartet in D Minor, Op.

Trejinės ("threesomes") are performed by three singers in strict canon.

The former mass uses strict canon at the fifth between superius and tenor, as well as a head motive in most movements.

Implications for interpretation of results brought about by relaxing an otherwise strict canon of methodology should also be considered.

Bethune was known as a strict Augustinian canon, a priest living a monastic life but not a monk.

The other voices could be used in many ways, ranging from freely composed polyphony to strict canon, but the texture was predominantly polyphonic but non-imitative.

But Britten reminds the listener that what is going on here is a strict canon, and the ingenious part-writing has never been clearer.