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To: LindaSOG

Radix loves music too, sort of.........

 

A Musical Offering

 

In 1746 Frederick the Great extended an invitation to Johann Sebastian to visit the Prussian court in Berlin....................

Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering contains ten canons. In each of these canons a musical line is played twice (or four times in Canon 10). The second version is always transformed with respect to the first by shifting in time, but it may also be shifted in pitch, turned upside-down, stretched, or played backwards. Each of these transformations occurs in the mathematics of elementary functions; they are examples of how new functions can be made out of old and of how a function can be tailored to fit a new situation.......

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575 posted on 02/21/2004 5:41:42 PM PST by Radix (There is more to the Rad Man than just an X Rating!)
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