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I think, we have not to forget that Beethoven COULD hear music seemingly until the end of his life.</P>
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He used for this special sticks which had to be hold pressed between the piano and his teeth. The sound he heared was certainly <BR>
very poor but it permitted him surely to verify some musical ideas or improvise.</P>
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Best regards,</P>
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Georges Bériachvili</P>
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Pianist, musicologist</P>
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Paris, France<BR>
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<B>De: </B>"Martin Braun"<nombraun@telia.com><BR>
<B>Date: </B>12 Mai 2014 16:23<BR>
<B>Objet: </B>Re: [Smt-talk] Beethoven's inner ear<BR>
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<SPAN style="font-size:11pt; color:#000000; font-family:'Calibri'">Eytan Agmon wrote:</SPAN></P>
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<SPAN style="font-size:11pt; color:#000000; font-family:'Calibri'">> In Beethoven’s case, I have always assumed that the scores he produced are testimony to what he heard in his “inner ear.”</SPAN></P>
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<FONT size=3 color="#000000" face=Calibri>Yes, most would have similar assumptions. It is more complicated, though. Beethoven, like most composers, used rules while composing. Analysis of the scores shows this. Analysis of Beethoven’s scores from different times also shows that most rules were the same or similar across the second half of his lifetime. So, when he wrote down notes after having lost his normal hearing, how many of his decisions were based on auditory imagination and how many were based on the application of rules?</FONT></P>
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<FONT size=3 color="#000000" face=Calibri>The ratio might have been 20/80, 10/90, or 2/98. We have no way of knowing.</FONT></P>
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<SPAN style=font-size:11pt; color:#000000; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif">Martin Braun<BR>
Neuroscience of Music<BR>
S-66492 Värmskog<BR>
Sweden<BR>
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