Crab canon

A crab canon is an arrangement of two things that are complementary and backward, similar to a palindrome. Originally it is a musical term for a kind of canon (music) in which one line is reversed in time from the other (e.g. FABACEAE <=> EAECABAF). The use of the term in non-musical contexts was popularized by Douglas Hofstadter.

Crab canon

===Alternate Definition=== The definition I had heard from my music teacher is one that she had to compose during college. By her idea, she had to compose piano sheet music, with the treble and bass clefs, that, if turned upside down, could be played exactly the same, substituting the bass for the treble and vice versa. Obviously, this was a hard piece to compose, but that's about all I can remember. Has anyone else heard this definition? User:MToolen 19:33, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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