Music from the Heart: Beethoven May have Composed Works to His Own Irregular Heartbeat

[Steel]

[quote]Could it be that when Ludwig van Beethoven composed some of the greatest masterpieces of all time that he was quite literally following his heart?

The striking rhythms found in some of Beethoven’s most famous works may have been inspired by his own heartbeat, says a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Washington that includes a cardiologist, medical historian, and musicologist.

Authors of an essay that appears in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine analyzed several of Beethoven’s compositions for clues of a heart condition some have speculated he had. The rhythms of certain parts of renowned works, researchers say, may in fact reflect the irregular rhythms of Beethoven’s own heart caused by cardiac arrhythmia.

“His music may have been both figuratively and physically heartfelt,” says co-author Joel Howell, M.D., Ph.D, a professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. “When your heart beats irregularly from heart disease, it does so in some predictable patterns. We think we hear some of those same patterns in his music.”[/quote]
Source:[url=http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/201501/was-beethoven%E2%80%99s-music-literally-heartfelt]University of Michigan Health System[/url]

[redBadger]

Beethoven was one depressed motherfucker.
You can hear it so much in his work.
The fact that he had to tear the legs off the piano to hear the vibrations of the notes on the floor at the beginning of his deafness goes to show how far he'd go to continue writing music.

This is a cool study. It doesn't surprise me that he used his heartbeat as a metronome per se.

[Pasalaqcua]

Are we going to see Beethoven do a collab with Kanye anytime soon?

[solid_jake]

[QUOTE=Pasalaqcua;46969921]Are we going to see Beethoven do a collab with Kanye anytime soon?[/QUOTE]

i'm still waiting on the mozart-tupac tupart

[Bradyns]

He must have snorted cocaine between the first and third movement of Moonlight Sonata...

That shit goes from 2:4 to 4:4.

[video=youtube;nT7_IZPHHb0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7_IZPHHb0[/video]

[video=youtube;oqSulR9Fymg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg[/video]

Code blue material.

[dyreweald]

[QUOTE=Bradyns;46969950]That shit goes from 2:4 to 4:4.[/QUOTE]

What do you mean by this?

[redBadger]

[QUOTE=Bradyns;46969950]He must have snorted cocaine between the first and third movement of Moonlight Sonata...

That shit goes from 2:4 to 4:4.

[video=youtube;nT7_IZPHHb0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT7_IZPHHb0[/video]

[video=youtube;oqSulR9Fymg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg[/video]

Code blue material.[/QUOTE]

Goes from broken love to irritated and pissed off.

[editline]19th January 2015[/editline]

Also ones in cut time the other is in 4/4 so p much the same thing

[Bradyns]

[QUOTE=Zatar963;46970028]What do you mean by this?[/QUOTE]

Time signature; 2beats per bar, to 4beats per bar.

[spiritlol]

This doesn't seem that odd considering some traditional Asian music is timed by human breathing.

[Jebus]

[QUOTE=Pasalaqcua;46969921]Are we going to see Beethoven do a collab with Kanye anytime soon?[/QUOTE]

who tf is beethoven? this is why i love kanye for shining light on unknown artists!