It was so entrenched in my memory that I could play it, crudely, before I could read a note of music. Mr. Levit recalled similar experiences; he too learned “Für Elise” by ear.

This ability was undoubtedly also common to Beethoven. Additionally, there is the music as a language factor. Like most languages, there exist the written and spoken elements, or in the case of music, ...

I think it’s fascinating, too, that as Beethoven’s hands stretched for lower and higher notes, he demanded pianos with added notes, elongating the pitch range of the keyboard; he asked for ...

A MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) file is information that tells the sound card which notes to play, and how to play them, rather than being recorded sound like an MP3 file.

In a Slovenian cave near the Idrijca River, archaeologists unearthed a strange artifact in 1995: a fragment of bone, about the length of a finger, punctured with round holes and charred by ancient ...

Music The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. December 24, 2020 More than 4 years ago Summary (Antonello Silverini for The Washington Post) ...

Players must put Ludwig van Beethoven's musical notes in order to make it to the symphony hall. Today’s Google logo celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven’s 245th birthday may be the coolest Doodle ...

GREENWICH, Conn. AP Sheet music written by Ludwig van Beethoven and found in a Connecticut home has fetched $100,000 at auction.The Greenwich Time reportsthat appraiser Brendan Ryan spotted the ...

GREENWICH, Conn. — Sheet music written by Ludwig van Beethoven and found in a Connecticut home has fetched $100,000 at auction. The Greenwich Time reports that appraiser Brendan Ryan spotted the ...

EPFL researchers are investigating Beethoven's composition style and they are using statistical techniques to quantify and explore the patterns that characterize musical structures in the Western ...

In December, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, and added to the hundreds of recordings of the symphony have been at least two dozen new releases this year.