Guest Salamine Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Anyone know any for the organ? I have a copy of Ronald Binge's 'vice Versa', actually a piano piece but aren't there other palindromic pieces - something by Bovet?. The Binge is clever but doesn't quite work harmonically here and there, fascinating nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgp Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Bach Musical offering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinwgc Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Chimes by Bernard Rose which under the title has "Ma fin est mon commencement, et mon commencement est ma fin." It's no. 7 in The Hovingham Sketches published by Banks in 1982. You can hear a performance of it by Francis Jackson recently posted on the General discussion forum of this board - at #1228 on the Youtube thread. RAC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madorganist Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I recall Charpantier's L'Ange a la Trompette being described as palindromic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidh Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 It's a vocal piece, but might well work on the organ if the performer knows the appropriate conventions: Guillaume de Machaut's "Ma fin est mon commencement". The top two parts are the same, but one is the mirror image of the other. The third part is the same as the first, but at twice the speed and reversed from the middle. So it's a palindrome plus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinwgc Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I recall Charpantier's L'Ange a la Trompette being described as palindromic Looking at the score of L’Ange à la Trompette I can't see how it can be described as palindromic! Chimes has 28 bars in 4/4, the notes at the first beat of bar 1 are the same as those at the 4th beat of bar 28, those at the 2nd beat of bar1 the same as those at the 3rd beat of bar 28 and so on, until those at beats 1 to 4 of bar 14 match those at beats 4 to 1 of bar 15. I would have liked to show here bars 13 to 16, which I have in several formats, but I have already spent too long trying to do this - I admit defeat. RAC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madorganist Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Looking at the score of L’Ange à la Trompette I can't see how it can be described as palindromic! RAC So much for programme notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscar_rook Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 David Aprahamian Liddle's Valse Locrienne Op5, written 1989-1990, is an exact palindrome. Regards Oscar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heva Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Some people claim Max Reger's works are palindromes; no difference if played forwards or backwards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprondel Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 The fourth Canon from the Art of Fugue runs back crosswise. Even Bach took two attempts to make that satisfying. One of the strangest pieces of music I ever heard. On the organ I like it best with (l. h.) Rankett 16, Rohrflöte 4, Waldflöte 2 + trem and (r. h.) a light jeu de tierce (minus the Quarte and perhaps the flûte). Best, Friedrich Ah, no. That is certainly not palindromic. But you might try the 14 Goldberg canons, there must be something there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Salamine Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Many thanks for that folks - I think i'll include all the pieces and call the recital Back to the Future...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timothyguntrip Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Many thanks for that folks - I think i'll include all the pieces and call the recital Back to the Future...... ...with a 'sortie-improvisee' on a theme of Huey Lewis and the News, perhaps? Would be quite an interesting theme for a recital programme. Glad to hear the Bernard Rose work mentioned - I find the Hovingham Sketches an invaluable collection - particularly the fine Epilogue by Howells which concludes the set. VA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJJ Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 ...with a 'sortie-improvisee' on a theme of Huey Lewis and the News, perhaps? Glad to hear the Bernard Rose work mentioned - I find the Hovingham Sketches an invaluable collection - particularly the fine Epilogue by Howells which concludes the set. VA The Harold Darke and Eric Thiman pieces are good too. I never used to play this part of the repertoire but am liking it more as I get older! A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Allcoat Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Ludus Tonalis by Hindemith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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