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Cryptogram 1

May 6th, 2019 · 2 Comments

A musical cryptogram is written like a substitution cipher, by assigning another pitch to each pitch. The result has the same rhythm and repetitions as the original, but with different pitches. I chose the minuet from Bach’s third French Suite because I like it, and because it uses all twelve pitches. Here’s the first page.

Tags: *Music · C

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 mamie caton // May 13, 2019 at 9:48 pm

    Crazy!

  • 2 Doug // May 14, 2019 at 11:09 pm

    That’s what they said about Galileo!