Rein Laul. 17 Studies on Beethoven Music

Beethoven: The Man and the Madness behind the Music

Widely hailed as one of the greatest composers of all time, Ludwig van Beethoven (17701827) was a musical genius constantly troubled by physical ailments of varying gravity which, for the most part, began in early adulthood and lasted until his death by liver failure at age 57 (Mai 96). His deafness is perhaps the most commonly known among these medical afflictions, due to the tragic concept of...

Network Science and the Effects of Music Preference on Functional Brain Connectivity: From Beethoven to Eminem

Most people choose to listen to music that they prefer or 'like' such as classical, country or rock. Previous research has focused on how different characteristics of music (i.e., classical versus country) affect the brain. Yet, when listening to preferred music--regardless of the type--people report they often experience personal thoughts and memories. To date, understanding how this occurs in...

Music Style Analysis among Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven: an Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach

Different musicians have quite different styles, which has influenced by their different historical backgrounds, personalities, and experiences. In this paper, we propose an approach to extract melody based features from sheet music, as well as an unsupervised clustering method for discovering music styles. Since that existing corpus is not sufficient for this research in terms of completeness ...

"Beethoven on Beethoven: Playing His Piano His Way." By William S. Newman

Beethoven recordings reviewed: a systematic method for mapping the content of music performance criticism

Critical reviews offer rich data that can be used to investigate how musical experiences are conceptualized by expert listeners. However, these data also present significant challenges in terms of organization, analysis, and interpretation. This study presents a new systematic method for examining written responses to music, tested on a substantial corpus of music criticism. One hundred critica...