Re: 'Morse' code
Cheryl Singhal (csinghal@CAPACCESS.ORG)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:19:03 -0500
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, DryerMS wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cheryl Singhal [mailto:csinghal@CAPACCESS.ORG]
> > Sent: Friday, 26 March 1999 13:33
> > Music majors tell me that certain composers (most of whom I had never
> > heard of) frequently spelt out things with the "beat" notes
> > or with the
> > first note on alternate lines (and please don't anyone tell me how
> > irrational that last one is, I already believe it is).
> >
>
> If I remember correctly, the old "Victory at Sea" series (which was about
> WWII sea battles) used Beethoven's Fifth Symphony for its theme song.
> Although I could never learn enough Morse code for an ham licence, I can
> recognize Beethoven's "bum, bum, bum, bummmm" as the International Morse
> "dit dit dit dah" or "V" for Victory.
Well, OK, (g) it made sense to me, but then I knew what I was saying...
The spelling in the music that I meant was where the composer used the
first 8 letters of the alphabet to spell something or to create an
anagram or one of those Use-the-first-letter-of-each-word puzzles. This
part had _nothing_ to do with Morse. Sorry for the confusion. :(
Cheryl
