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Generating Beethoven's 5th in Matlab

Primary LanguageMATLAB

Generating Beethoven's 5th Symphony using Matlab

Authors:

Mahmoud Saleh:@msdocs

Leslie Daniel: @lesdaniel

Making of Beethoven's 5th Symphony in MATLAB

###About The Team generated a portion Beethoven's 5th Symphony in Matlab
all notes portions of the song.

Note:

  • The song currently does not contain rests however the notes that are played are correct.

We First had to find the notes in Beethoven's 5th. Here are the Beethoven's 5th beginning notes.

Notes of Beethoven's 5th Beginning : Source

Translates to:

[G G G E♭] [rest]  [G G G E♭] [rest] [F F F] [rest]  [D G G G]

Next we had to find the frequencies for every note in The notes that we'll be using for Beethoven's Fifth are in the octave containing frequencies from 220 Hz to 440 Hz Source

Piano Notes Octave

Note Frequency (Hz)
A 220
A# B♭ 220 * 2^(1/12)
B 220 * 2^(2/12)
C 220 * 2^(3/12)
C# D♭ 220 * 2^(4/12)
D 220 * 2^(5/12)
D# E♭ 220 * 2^(6/12)
E 220 * 2^(7/12)
F 220 * 2^(8/12)
F# G♭ 220 * 2^(9/12)
G 220 * 2^(10/12)
G# A♭ 220 * 2^(11/12)

Credits

Special thanks to @bvagts for decoding the music notes