Thursday, September 19, 2013

Science, music, detection – what more could you ask in a story?  I've seen reference before to controversy about what tempo (speed) Beethoven's works should be played at.  The problem arises from his original tempo notes; they seem just crazy to most conductors.  One intriguing possibility is that his metronome was broken – and now researchers think they know the answer.  Original paper (PDF) here...

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