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 Palindrome - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia
The Latin palindrome "Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas" (roughly "The farmer by his labour keeps the wheels to the plough") is remarkable for the fact that it reproduces itself also if one forms a word from the first letters, then the second letters and so forth.
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).
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.
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 ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
document all or part of an actual live presentation of dance, music (recital, concert, opera, etc.), or theater (stage play, mime, circus, magic, puppet show, comedy act, variety show, etc.).
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 Neil/Fred's Gigantic List of Palindromes
The sower Arepo works with the help of a wheel
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Update: I always think of these things too late, but Fish is more or less quoting Walter Sobchak's "Say what you want about the tenets of Islamic fundamentalism, at least it's an ethos."
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