Scientist, Music ver. - 9th, Doppler and Beethoven, Their Divergence

 

 

 

 

Hello, this is Mi-Hyun Kim from KIST Blog.
I heard there are many people who have a cold due to the daily temperature range.
As you know, it's very chilly except daytime.
How are you doing these days, these days?

At the corner of the autumn, I want to introduce you to some awesome people.
One is Doppler, physician and mathematician at the same time.
And the other is Beethoven, one of the best musician in the world.

Someone might think curiously about the title.
"Their divergence" sounds awkward, doesn't it?
Now I am going to tell you one by one.

First of all, I want to tell you about the definition of divergence.
As you may study in the high school days, you have learned about an infinite sequence.
And in an infinite sequence, there are a concept of the convergence and divergence.
When 'n' has number in the order, 'one, two, three, four, five... " in progression {an}, the result would reach some number, meaning the result is closed to a certain number.
This is a "Convergence."
On the other hand, the result could be much bigger without limitation.
And that is "Divergence."

The divergence that I'm saying now is the concept of the variation of the result caused by time and location.

So, what does the divergence means to Doppler and Beethoven's music and science?
Can you guess?

I'll start with Doppler.
Johann Christian Doppler (1803-1853) was the Austrian physician and the mathematician

One of the most famous theory of his findings, there is a theory of the Doppler effect
He studied the sound phenomenon and optical phenomenon, and made a theory of the relationship between the observer and source of vibration.
According to the theory, the number of vibration can be vary due to relation motions.
The Phenomenon is like this: the source of the wave is shortened if it reached to people, or on the other hand, could became longer.

 

For instance, if the trains are getting close to each other,
you can hear the whistle of the train in the other side.

And you as the train goes far away from the train that you are in, you could hear the sound much more quietly.

With this theory many other theory or ideas have some support ideas.

Especially the theory has many good effects on the theory of expansion of the universe, and made such a huge progress in the astrophysics, as I told you the last article of Hubble's law.

This is the divergence which Doppler had introduced in the science world.

Next, I'm going to talk about Beethoven and connect the two people.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was the classical music composer of the German, and one of the best musican in the world.

 

He revised the form and pattern of the classical school in his own idiosyncratic,
and made some progress to step into the romantic school.

 

His idioms had active motion and power.
Also he had somewhat certain pattern and made his own world of music.
Though he had suffered from the hearing impairment owing to the earache,
he was an outstanding composure.

 

Although he was far from the elegant and aristocratic tastes,

he has his own characteristics and was a free thinker.
Such nature is contained in his arts, music.

 

He is very especially famous for the audacious and drastic expressions.
He used crescendos and made dramatic style,
and you can find out such tries in his many other songs.

Crescendo is one of the marks in the music score, and with the sign, instruments should be played in the gradual increment sounds, and reached in the maximum level.

 

We also find out some other crescendos in his life outside of the score.
He accepted his worst situation as the deaf composure,
and after that, he became much more wonderful and matured.

He made masterpieces, such as symphonies, concertos, sonatas continuously.
And this is the divergence that I found in Beethoven and his music,

Divergence is like, a sort of an energy.
It has many forms, such as vague, due to it's getting huger without limitation.
Also, it is spread in the score in the form of note,
and we also have it in our own world, itself.

 

Some might use "Divergence" passionately in his research and became a physician.
Others perhaps use "Divergence" in the creation of musical works.
Still others, "Divergence" could be the driving force throughout the life.

Look at yourself, meaning within yourself, the inner voice.
All of you also have it in your own mind.
It just has a different way of its expressing ways.

I want you to have some time to find out your own "Divergence" in the inner side.
Now please listen to those songs and think deeply.
Also I want you to take your breath in your busy life.
Take your time, and please have some joyful experience of finding your own "Divergence" in your mind.

 

 

** Beethoven's Moonlight Piano Sonata Valentina Lisitsa

 

 

 

** Beethoven's Tempest Sonata mvt. 3 -- Wilhelm Kempff

 

 

 

 

** Beethoven 9na-Sinfonia