Musical cryptogram. The BACH motif. A musical cryptogram is a cryptogrammatic sequence of musical notes, a sequence which can be taken to refer to an extra-musical text by some 'logical' relationship, usually between note names and letters. The most common and best known examples result from composers using ciphered versions of their own or their friends' names as themes or motifs in their compositions. Much rarer is the use of music notation to encode messages for reasons of espionage or personal security called steganography. Be
Rockall. Rockall is a very small, uninhabited island located around 300 miles (480 km) off the west coast of mainland Scotland. At just over 25 metres wide by 21 metres high, the extinct volcano doesnât seem to have any outstanding features of particular interest but nothing could be further from the truth.
Fridayâs eclipse will not touch land anywhere across the UK, but the line of totality will pass six miles north-west of the uninhabited island of Rockall. A solar eclipse, like this one seen in Easter Island, Chile, in 2010, is expected to bring thousands of tourists to the north of Scotland.