Template:Sequence of the Day for December 16

Intended for: December 25, 2011

Timetable

• First draft entered by Alonso del Arte on May 29, 2011 (as a verbatim copy of a write-up from December 16, 2010) ✓
• Draft reviewed by Daniel Forgues on December 16, 2012 ✓
• Draft to be approved by November 25, 2011

Yesterday's SOTD * Tomorrow's SOTD

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A054245: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor.

{ 5, 5, 5, 3, 4, 4, 4, 2, 5, 5, 5, 3, 6, 6, 6, 5, 10, 10, 10, 8, 5, 5, 5, ... }

Contrary to popular belief, the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has an eight-note motif, not four notes. Here of course we have just the principal melody line, without the bass line and inner voices. Before “polyphonic” ring tones became available, this is how you would hear it as a ring tone.

Compare:

Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (1) (Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op. 67—1. Allegro con brio)

http://oeis.org/A054245/listen (Pitch offset of 40 works somewhat better, sort of...)

Today is Beethoven’s birthday, by the way.