Darren New escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Darren New escreveu:
>>> Invisible wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah. And somebody complained to me that they took an Enya CD and 
>>>> played it backwards and it still sounded the same.
>>>
>>> So does "Musical Offering". :-)
>>
>> You sure jest! :)
> 
> No. Some of the movements (or whatever they're called) are the same 
> melody played forward and backward at the same time. Some are the same 
> played right side up and upside down.  (Crab Canon is like that, too.)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_canon

Yes, fugues and canons are recursive and self-referential musical pieces 
based on variations over a single theme or 2 themes, the second itself 
generally a variation of the first.  Inversions are one such variation.

However, an inverted piece of melody doesn't mean the whole music will 
sound the same if played backwards.  That's why I thought you were jesting.

And I thought you were originally talking about Beethoven's 32 variations...

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