>someone noticed that the dot-dot-dot-dash reminded them of the first 4 notes in Beethoven's 5th
>( Roman numeral for 5 being a V also ) Symphony.
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, orchestral work by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven,
widely recognized by the ominous four-note opening motif
— often interpreted as themusical manifestation of “fate knocking at the door”
— that recurs in various guises throughout the composition.
The symphony premiered on December 22, 1808, in Vienna,
and it soon became a standard against which many other symphonies were measured.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Symphony-No-5-in-C-Minor-Op-67
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-van-Beethoven
colour music,
music intended for instrumental performance in conjunction with a simultaneous projection of changing colours onto a screen.
It has its origins in the theory, prevalent in the Renaissance and systematically set forth by the
17th-century Jesuit music theorist and mathematician Athanasius Kircher
(1602–80), that each musical sound has a necessary, objective correspondence to a certain colour.
From the 18th to the 20th century, experiments were made by adapting various keyboard instruments
in such a way that when a key was depressed it would, in addition to producing a sound,
raise a coloured tape or glass through which light was projected on a screen.
Several modern composers, notably Arnold Schoenberg and Aleksandr Scriabin,
were attracted by the idea and produced examples of colour music.
https://www.britannica.com/art/colour-music
Nice COLOR choice.
It's a shame the windows had to be blocked out to eliminate that view.
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Alphabetical notations
Alphabets are historically a phenomenon of the Middle East, Europe, and the Indian subcontinent.
Their ordering of letters provides a convenient reference system for the notes of musical scales in ascending or descending order.
Alphabetical notations are among the most ancient musical scripts.
Two Greek notations were of this type, the earlier using an archaic alphabet and the latter using the Classical Greek alphabet.
Many comparable notations arose in the Middle Ages, and the modern note names, A to G, are an outgrowth of these.
The clefs of staff notations are a formalized survival.
The system of pitch notation devised by 19th-century German philosopher and scientist Hermann von Helmholtz
was derived from the Greek system, using dashes for octave register
but employing Roman letters: A〟, B〟, C〟–B〟, C–B, c–b, c′ (middle C)–b′, c″–b″, c‴–b‴, e >>18960085
https://www.britannica.com/art/musical-notation
https://www.britannica.com/art/musical-notation/Evolution-of-Western-staff-notation
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Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, but initial progress was slow, and it was not until 1807–08
that he worked on the piece with intensity.
Meanwhile,
he started to write another symphony, which is now known as Symphony No. 6 in F Major (Pastorale).
Beethoven completed both of the symphonies at nearly the same time in 1808,
and they premiered together on the same all-Beethoven program.
At that first performance, however, the Pastorale bore the number five.
Somewhere between premiere and publication, Beethoven renumbered the two compositions:
the C{3} minor became the Fifth Symphony,
and the F{6} major became the Sixth Symphony.