A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this ...

Music’s most memorable da-da-da-dummm touched off a cultural and intellectual ferment that’s ably explored in this sparkling study. Boston Globe music critic Guerrieri opens with an engaging ...

Members of the Beethoven Choruses celebrated 100 years of singing and “gemutlichkeit” last night by hosting a concert covering their rich musical heritage. The concert was held in the Beethoven ...

Whether or not music stirs inside, each of us bears a living metronome at our core. It may tick at 40 or 100 beats per minute, in three-quarter time or in six-eight, erratically or like a Swiss clock.

If Beethoven could hear a CD recording of his music (assuming he returned to this world with his hearing intact) he would probably throw one of his famous fits. The performance would seem to him ...

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