Palindrome

: For the movie, see Palindromes (movie)

Symmetry by sound

Japanese

• Ta-ke-ya-bu ya-ke-ta (竹薮焼けた) - A bamboo grove has been burned.
• Wa-ta-shi ma-ke-ma-shi-ta-wa (私負けましたわ) - I have lost.
• Na-ga-ki yo-no to-ho-no ne-bu-ri-no mi-na me-za-me na-mi-no-ri-bu-ne-no o-to-no-yo-ki-ka-na (長き世の 遠の眠りの 皆目覚め 波乗り船の 音の良きかな) - Tanka
• Shi-n-bu-n-shi (新聞紙) - News paper
• Mi-ga-ka-nu ka-ga-mi (磨かぬ鏡) - Un-wiped mirror
• Ni-ku-no-oo-i-oo-no-ku-ni (肉の多い大乃国)

Korean

• Da keun do-ra-ji-il-ji-ra-do keun-da. (다 큰 도라지일지라도 큰다.) - Even full-grown balloonflower will grow.
• Ga-ryeon-ha-si-da sa-jang-jip a-deul-ddal-deul-a jip-jang-sa da-si ha-ryeon-ga. (가련하시다 사장집 아들딸들아 집장사 다시 하련가.) - Pitiful are the president's siblings - will they come back to estate agentry?
• Da-si-hab-chang-hab-si-da.(다시 합창합시다.) - Let's sing together again.

The Icelandic band Sigur Rós composed a song on their album Ágætis byrjun, which partly sounds the same, playing forwards or backwards. Not only symmetric from the notes, but also symmetric in the sound by mixing the reverse music over the original. The song—named "Starálfur"—can be downloaded from their website http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/.

Related Topics:
Iceland - Band - Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun - Download - Website

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The interlude from Alban Berg's opera, Lulu is a palindrome, as are sections and pieces, in arch form, by many other composers, including James Tenney (swell), and most famously Béla Bartók's (and influenced by him Steve Reich).

Related Topics:
Alban Berg - Lulu - Arch form - James Tenney - Béla Bartók - Steve Reich

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See also crab canon, in classical music: a canon in which one line of the melody is reversed in time and pitch from the other.

Related Topics:
Crab canon - Classical music - Canon

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