Puzzle (Answer below)
The Spy was to meet with his deep undercover operative to obtain the Secret Password that would unlock the secret documents he had obtained, but when he walked up to the person they refused to make eye contact and simply hummed the final fugue subject in the last Contrapunctus of The Art of Fugue a few times and then left. The Spy was bewildered, but then the secret cipher became clear.
What was the Secret Password?
Can you Solve the BrainXChallenge?
Skills
Attention to Detail, Trivia Knowledge/Recall
Answer
The secret password was BACH, where the composer Johann Sebastian Bach ciphered his name (B-flat, A, C, B-natural) into his music as the final fugue subject in the last Contrapunctus of The Art of Fugue as a music cryptogram – being a sequence of pitches that utilizes the relationship between the note names and letters of the alphabet to spell out words – where composers used the German spelling for notes including the musical letters A-B-C-D-E-F-G. See more at link.
