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- Title
"Quaerendo Invenietis": Patrick Gowers's Sherlockian Puzzle.
- Authors
GAULDIN, ROBERT
- Abstract
When Granada Television contracted the British composer Patrick Gowers to provide the accompanying score for its Sherlock Holmes series (1984-89), he opted to insert into his music "a puzzle that only Sherlock himself would immediately recognize and solve." An exhaustive analysis of its forty-one programs, which takes into consideration the origin and derivation of their thematic material, the identification of paraphrased or disguised masterpieces, various ethnic and/or historical influences, as well as a catalogue of literal quotations from other works, provides a trail of tantalizing clues (including Gowers' own planting of the cryptic phrase "Quaerendo invenietis" in his 1987 LP recording), whose eventual solution leads to Bach's Musical Offering.
- Subjects
TELEVISION music; SHERLOCK Holmes television programs; GOWERS, Patrick, 1936-2014; MUSIC scores; GRANADA Television (Company)
- Publication
Theory & Practice, 2014, Vol 39, p25
- ISSN
0741-6156
- Publication type
Article