A crab canon is an arrangement of two things that are complementary and backward, similar to a palindrome. A palindrome is a word phrase number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words Originally it is a musical term for a kind of canon in which one line is reversed in time from the other (e. In Music, a canon is a contrapuntal composition that employs a Melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e g. FABACEAE <=> EAECABAF). A famous example is found in J. S. Bach's A Musical Offering, which also contains a canon ("Quaerendo invenietis") combining retrogresion with inversion, i. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section.2 This article is written in British English including maximised use of "-ise" The Musical Offering (German title Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer) BWV 1079 is a collection of canons e. , the music is turned upside down by one player. The use of the term in non-musical contexts was popularized by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach. Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15 1945 in New York New York) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness thinking and creativity Gödel Escher Bach an Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning book by Douglas Hofstadter, described
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crab canon
-noun
- (music) A contrapuntal composition in which one melody is superimposed on the same melody in reverse
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