A054245 Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; 1 stands for the first note in the minor scale, etc.

5, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 4, 2, 5, 5, 5, 3, 6, 6, 6, 5, 10, 10, 10, 8, 5, 5, 5, 2, 6, 6, 6, 5, 11, 11, 11, 9, 12, 12, 11, 10, 9, 12, 12, 11, 10, 9, 12, 12, 11, 10, 8, 12, 13, 13, 13, 11

Offset: 0

Author

Howard Givner, circa 1996; Rebecca Bellovin, Apr 27 2000

Keywords

• nonn
• easy
• fini

Comments

I'm including this only because it was independently submitted by two people. It violates almost all my rules. - N. J. A. Sloane, May 08 2000

The explanation "1 stands for the first note in the minor scale, etc." is not satisfying. It appears that the current data refers to the full tones in that scale, but this does not allow us to encode correctly half-tones occurring later in the score but which are not part of the C minor scale. It would be more satisfying to record the half-tones, using, e.g., 0=c, 1=c#, 2=d, 3=d#, ..., 12=c', -12=C, ... - M. F. Hasler, Jun 12 2012

References

• Richard Friedberg, An Adventurer's Guide to Number Theory, 1968, McGraw-Hill; reprinted by Dover Publications.

Links

• Classical Archives, Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No.5 in C-, Op.67 (MP3 files). [From Ami Fischman (ami(AT)fischman.org), May 27 2000, link updated by _Brian Galebach_, Sep 13 2003, and by _M. F. Hasler_, Jun 12 2012]
• Project Gutenberg, Symphony No. 5 in C minor Opus 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven (MIDI files). [From _M. F. Hasler_, Jun 12 2012]
• Tower Records, Beethoven's 5th symphony [From _Brian Galebach_, Mar 20 2001, link updated by _M. F. Hasler_, Jun 12 2012]
• Wikipedia, Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven). [From _M. F. Hasler_, Jun 12 2012]
• OEIS index entry for music.

Extensions

More terms from Brian Galebach, Mar 20 2001