In the minuet in Haydn’s Symphony No. 47, the orchestra plays the same passage forward, then backward.
The enigmatic Canon 1 and 2 from J. S. Bach's Musical Offering (1747). The manuscript depicts a single musical sequence that is to be played front to back and back to front.
An example of a crab canon (from Wikipedia):
There is also a palindrome in Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis: the Postludium is an retrograde inversion of the Praeludium.
The enigmatic Canon 1 and 2 from J. S. Bach's Musical Offering (1747). The manuscript depicts a single musical sequence that is to be played front to back and back to front.
An example of a crab canon (from Wikipedia):
There is also a palindrome in Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis: the Postludium is an retrograde inversion of the Praeludium.
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| A page from the original edition. Drawings are by Hindemith himself, for his wife. More here: http://www.hindemith.info/en/life-work/biography/1939-1945/werk/composing-in-wartime/ |
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