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Apropos of nothing other than my trivial nature, one of my favorite factoids involves the opening notes of Beethoven's 5th.  The form of those notes - short short short long - is also the Morse code for the letter V which coincidentally in Roman numerals is 5.

While not exactly as karmicly fitting as musically announcing itself as the Fifth Symphony, I understand that the opening notes as morse code V is not something anybody who lived through WWII could forget (at least in an allied country). As in V for Victory. While that demographic does not include me, it is something my mother stressed to me many times. 


Of course Beethoven didn't plan it, as morse code was developed a few years after Beethoven wrote the music. Perhaps Messrs. Morse and Vail were music lovers.

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Apropos of nothing other than my trivial nature, one of my favorite factoids involves the opening notes of Beethoven's 5th.  The form of those notes - short short short long - is also the Morse code for the letter V which coincidentally in Roman numerals is 5.

While not exactly as karmicly fitting as musically announcing itself as the Fifth Symphony, I understand that the opening notes as morse code V is not something anybody who lived through WWII could forget (at least in an allied country). As in V for Victory. While that demographic does not include me, it is something my mother stressed to me many times. 


Of course Beethoven didn't plan it, as morse code was developed a few years after Beethoven wrote the music. Perhaps Messrs. Morse and Vail were music lovers.