Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/221 - A Musical Enigma/Solution

by : $221$

 * A Musical Enigma

Solution

 * The solution is $\text {B A C H}$.


 * If you turn the cross round, you get successively:
 * $\text B \flat$ (treble clef)
 * $\text A$ (tenor clef)
 * $\text C$ (alto clef)
 * $\text B \natural$ (treble clef).


 * ''In the German tradition, $\text B \flat$ (that is, $\text B$ flat) is called $\text B$, and $\text B \natural$ (that is, $\text B$ natural) is called $\text H$,
 * ''making it read $\text {B A C H}$.

then goes on to discuss an organ fugue by, which begins as follows:


 * Dudeney-Modern-Puzzles-221-solution.png

but fails to call to mind the last work of his father, who included that exact motif in the final (uncompleted) movement of his.

This sequence of four notes is known as the.