Music Boxes

Music boxes are a great medium for illustrating structure in music. Here are two such projects: Möbius Music Box and Pachelbel's Music Box Canon in D.

Möbius Music Box

My first arrangement for music box is a theme from the Harry Potter Septet. Being a mathematician, I twisted the paper into a Möbius strip and made this educational video to demonstrate:

Click to play (1 min 51 sec)

Also available on YouTube.

For comparison, you can listen to the theme in piano from the Harry Potter Septet. This section is inspired by Dumbledore's speech at the end of Book 4, and spans from the theme entrance to the end of the movement.

Click to play (3 min 21 sec)

Pachelbel's Music Box Canon in D

My second arrangement for music box is Pachelbel's Canon in D. Three music boxes play the same strip of paper in sequence, creating a canon. The basso continuo is created by another music box playing a loop of paper. This arrangement really lets you see the structure of Pachelbel's original canon!

Click to play (2 min 53 sec)

Also available on YouTube.