So it's a round with a melody and counter melody where the answering voices starts a 5th above the originals and mirror the melodic shape.

Basically nobody is going to be able to tell that's what I did without looking at the score. It's showing off for conductors/musicians/and other composers.

But most importantly, I also think it sounds cool.

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If you're curious:

A cannon is basically a round (so like Row Row Row your Boat or any other number of campfire songs)
A double cannon is one with two melodic lines that get repeated instead of just one.
A cannon at the 5th means that they melodic lines comes in a 5th above the original statement
A cannon by inversion means that the second instance of the melody goes down when the original goes up and up when the original goes down.

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The shear amount of emotion packed into an incredibly efficient reuse of melodic material, and the richness of the harmonic structure is just... amazing.

But what I can't get over is the opening phrase. The way it just hugs that low Db (could be a C#, I'm not looking at the music, just going by ear), even at the end where there's a little bit of a rising melody that jumps back down for the last note.

The contrast in the register\tone makes that run up to beginning of the next phrase just shimmer.

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