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Free Guitar Ensemble Music

2 Guitars - Mozart Canon

Download and print this easy ensemble piece with my compliments. Help on printing

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Brief Study Notes

This Canon for two violins fits perfectly on the guitar. The accompaniment is simply the tune played upside down - not an inversion in the ordinary sense of the word - this is physically inverted!

Some people refer to this as a palindrome, but actually, it's the Bach Crab Canon that is a palindrome...
 
Strictly, the music ought to have a clef at the both ends, but I think you can probably do that yourself with a felt-tip pen.
 
More curious are the accidentals. No - you don't have to remember that they are after, rather than before, the note when the score is upside down. Instead, they affect the new note before which they appear. Look at complete bar 10 - B, C, C# and D. When the page is inverted, the sharp is now in front of a new note, and the accompaniment is G, A, A# and B.
 
This is a piece which you can try out yourself using a cassette recorder or a PC/Mac and microphone.