Saturday, December 04, 2004
Music Wonkdom
I am not a musician, aside from occasional flirtations with the harp. (No, not that harp. This one.) Nor am I a mathematician, aside from... well, does simply knowing about and appreciating Martin Gardner and having read Gödel, Escher, Bach make one a mathematician? Maybe a mathematics dilettante.
In any case, I couldn't help being charmed by a brief (and apolitical) entry at Here's What's Left. First, there's some sheet music:
And then there's this brief synopsis:
In any case, I couldn't help being charmed by a brief (and apolitical) entry at Here's What's Left. First, there's some sheet music:
What in the world, you might ask, is that? It's the Canon #9 from Bach's Musical Offering. It's for two instruments. They play the same line of music: one in alto clef, the clef that looks like a "B," and one upside down, in bass clef, the one that looks like a backwards "C."If nothing else, this tells us in no uncertain terms that mathematically oriented musicians, or musically oriented mathematicians, are probably not your next-door neighbors.
