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The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip
May 5, 2017 in Music | Tags: Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip, J.S. Bach, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude | by The Arbourist | 1 comment
A crab canon (also known by the Latin form of the name, canon cancrizans; as well as retrograde canon, canon per recte et retro or canon per rectus et inversus[2]) is an arrangement of two musical lines that are complementary and backward, similar to a palindrome. Originally it is a musical term for a kind of canon in which one line is reversed in time from the other (e.g. FABACEAE played simultaneously with EAECABAF). A famous example is found in J. S. Bach’s The Musical Offering, which also contains a canon (“Quaerendo invenietis”) combining retrogression with inversion, i.e., the music is turned upside down by one player, which is a table canon.




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