Musical palindromes Full pieces or movements that are an exact palindrome. This is a work in progress. If you know of others, please let me know! List of musical palindromes: Autechre: 32a_reflected (2018) waveform C. P. E. Bach: Zwo abwechselnde Menuetten, C major, Menuet 1 (1770) score J. S. Bach: Crab canon from the Musical Offering (1747) score Giuseppe Baini: Virgo dolorissima ora pro nobis (1821) score Filippo Baroni: Canone a 2 dove il 2 soprano principia da piedi ritornando indietro fino al principio (1704) score Giovanni Briccio: Canoni Enigmatici 6 (1632) score Giovanni Briccio: Canoni Enigmatici 10 (1632) score William Byrd: Diliges Dominum score Erik Carlson: Dog Star Palindrome (2025) description Erik Carlson: Crab Canon 1 (2024) description Domenico De Feraria: O dolce compagno score Angelo Gagliardi: Canon a 2. retrogradus score Karel Goeyvaerts: Nummer 5 (1954) spectrogram Francois Joseph Gossec: Canons en ecrevisse ou retrograde (3) imslp link Adam Gumpelzhaimer: Ecce lignum (1591) score (cross) Adam Gumpelzhaimer: Domine memento mei (1591) score (circles) Adalbert Gyrowetz: Trio al rovescio from the minuet of the String Quartet in G major, Op. 29/2 (1799) score Joseph Haydn: Symphony 47, Menuet (1772) score Johann Hiller: Polonoise (1770) score Johannes Jeepy: Canon a Quatuor Voc. (1610?) score Friedrich Linder: Retrogradi Cantor gressus imitabere Cancri (1596) score Francisco Lopez y Capillas: Agnus Dei II from Missa Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui score Guillaume de Machaut: Ma fin est mon commencement (1370?) score Michael Meier: Jupiter e Delphis (1618) score Cristiano Miller: Canzone epitalamica (1763) score Conlon Nancarrow: Study no. 22 (1982) waveform Leonhard Päminger: Vexilla regis prodeunt score Leonhard Päminger: Tua cruce triumphamus score Stefano Pasino: 4-part canon score Hugo Riemann: examples 316+317 from Text-book of simple and double counterpoint including imitation or canon (1904) score Rocco Rodio: Canone Cancherizzando score Samuel Scheidt: Canon retrogradus a 3 Voc. (1624) score Samuel Scheidt: Canon Cancrizans (1624) score Ludwig Senfl: Crux fidelis / Ecce lignum / O Crux ave (1538) score John Stainer: Per Recte et Retro (1902) score Gregorio Strozzi: Non progredi in via Dei, est retrogredi (from Elementorum musicae praxis) (1683) score James Tenney: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (1971) score Filippo Traetta: Sinfonia Concertata, mvt. III (1803) score Tyrannosaurus Rex: Deboraarobed (1968) Giovanni Battista Vitali: Artificii musicali, n.29 "Modulatione cancrizzata" (1689) score Giovanni Battista Vitali: Artificii musicali, n. 38 "In questa modulatione" (1689) score Gregorius Joseph Werner: Der curiose musikalische Instrumentalkalende, Die Sonne im Krebs (1748) score Otto Wolf: Symmetrical canon (1911?) score Otto Wolf: Symmetrical canon inversion (1911?) score La Monte Young: Dream House installation La Monte Young: Composition 1960 (7) score Jan Dismas Zelenka: Canon Cancrizans 1 (1723) score Jan Dismas Zelenka: Canon Cancrizans 2 (1723) score Unknown: J'ay mis ce rondelet (Strasbourg 222 C. 22, no. 133) (1400-1450?) score Unknown: Tres douls amis (Strasbourg 222 C. 22, no. 131) (1400-1450?) score Unknown: II vient bien (codex Reina) (1350-1400?) score Unknown: Ancient Greek palindromes (Papyri Graecae Magicae IV) (3rd century?) score Notable quasi-palindromes: Making decisions about what to put in this catalogue turned out to be more difficult than I anticipated. Here is a list of very beautiful almost-palindromes J. S. Bach: Kanon zu acht Stimmen BWV 1072 score One could choose to play it as a palindrome, but one could also choose not to. Luigi Dallapiccola: Andantino Amoroso e Contrapunctus Tertius score An un-retrograded statement of the material is performed before the palindrome begins Charles Ives's: "Scherzo: All the Way Around and Back" Most of the piece is a palindrome, except for a few measures at the beginning and the end. Gyorgy Ligeti: Prelude to the opera "Le Grand Macabre" The prelude is an exact palendrome except for a single chord added to the end. Giovanni Nanino: Misericordia et Veritas score 2 motets that are mirror-images of each other, which could potentially be performed back-to-back. Luigi Nono: Incontri (1955) first/middle/last page The tempo changes are close to, but not exactly, palindromic. L. Richmond: Canon cancrizans from the collection "9 Songs" by Charles Hague (1800?) score An un-retrograded statement of the material is performed before the palindrome begins Jerry Samuels: They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! The B-side of the record is the A-side song played in reverse. John Tavener: Chant The piece is a palindrome except for fermatas and ornaments. Joseph Waters / Roman de Salvo: Crab Carillon (2003) description The installation consists of 488 individually tuned chimes spanning the full length of a pedestrian bridge, which are structred as a palindrome but need not be played that way. La Monte Young: Trio for Strings Each phrase is a palindrome, but the piece as a whole is not. Unknown: 2 mirrored passages from Ancient Greece score These passages (transcribed in Johann Bellermann's "Anonymi scriptio de musica") could have been intended as a single piece. Many composeres: table-music pieces (or mirror-music) These pieces are retrograde inversions of themselves instead of a retrograde palindrome. Still unverified possible-palindromes Robert Simpson: slow movement of String Quartet 1 F. R. Fontein Tuinhout: Canon cancrizans from Six Morceaux pour piano (1900) Unknown: Canon cancrizans a 2 (Burgerbibliothek Bern Cod. C 50) (15th century) Unknown: Canon, i (X) in C major (D-LEm , Poel.mus.Ms.25)