# Bach- Crab Canon from the Musical Offering

One of Bach's two-part canons from The Musical Offering. This one is commonly called the "Crab Canon", especially after it was popularized in Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book, "Gödel, Escher, Bach".

The green part is the blue part backwards, which makes the entire piece into a palindrome except for the fact that the parts switch roles.

Visualized using Synthesia.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Robyn Speer
- Genres: Music
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bach-_Crab_Canon_from_the_Musical_Offering.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Robyn Speer
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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