Wednesday, September 19, 2012

How a Bach Canon Works

We found this really fun!  A dear friend sent us the link to this video.

Somebody got it into his head to portray a crab canon visually, using a mobius strip.

For those of you who are not familiar with counterpoint, let me just set the record straight:


That would be more of a crab cannon, really.

The crab canon is a piece of counterpoint in which the melody can be played backwards and upside-down at the same time.

2 comments:

  1. wow - that is really clever! Would have been useful to watch in Theory class as it is an excellent visual image of the sound. Cool! Thanks for the neat baby/momma shots, too. Woo hoo!

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  2. Rockin! Having knit a moebius strip, the visualization was kinda helpful!

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