Counting the Da-Da-Da-Dahs in Beethoven's Fifth... 

Not only the legend had the patience to count all of this, but he also edited and entire video on it, even showcasing which instrument played it in some occasions! Congratulations on the hard work!

Stuff like this what makes the internet great.

Best evidence that you can actually never have too much of a good thing after all.

I also like how Beethoven uses the motif throughout the symphony and the how mood ultimately changes from judgment to triumph.

Beethoven 's symphonic music combines masterfully emotional epicness with tasteful and groovy dynamics... That's why I consider him the absolute greatest when it comes to orchestral stuff

This is why beethoven was a genius, he had a lot of difficulty to find a theme he was satisfed with, working at it a lot and so developing such a mastery of elaboeation and variation of little material. Once you start analyse him in this way youll never stop, and that just shows the immense detail❤and i love always more❤

I just googled da da da daa classical music, and it brought me to this. Well done Sir for highlighting the number of da da da daas in Beethovens Fifth !

This is some information that I didn't know I needed. Thank you, sir!

Love it! When I become prime minister, I will appoint you as the secretary of useless jobs. By the way 193 is a prime number: It has no divisors other than 1 and itself.

....and that is just in the first movement. IIRC, he uses a similar motif in the 4th Piano Concerto & possibly also in the 6th Symphony.

The RU-vid algorithm strikes again, i admire your dedication, but no idea how I got here,

Now if we added the tah-tah-tah-TAHs from the 3rd movement...

I randomly shouted out "50' before it started... Beethoven has my expectations far exceeded. touche, Beethoven.

Yayyyyyyy😊

Hopefully you get more comments than the number of da da da dums you counted. This is comment number 26th.

Use motif lightly

How about including second and third mvt? (Jkjk

At the same time as #182, there is the exact same motive, played *in augmentation* by the first horn. I don't believe that's a coincidence; Beethoven certainly knew about augmentations etc. More debatable, the repeated G 8th notes after #182 could count as several appearances of the motive, if played as (g g g| g) (g g g| g) (in Lilypond notation).

Now do the first movement of the seventh symphony lol

Imagine if there would be exactly 200 😂

They left out the repeat of the first part, and the slightly hidden versions in the second movement, and the marchlike melody in the scherzo, and the background And melodic rhythms, and the repeat of the scherzo melody, in the last movement.

I would've counted 5:17-5:20 as 4 separate motifs. At least that's how I've always understood that part.

Is there a reason you've not counted the 2nd violin & viola at 0:42? Also at 3:25

If one takes the exposition repeat then it’s 250.

250ish over 504 bars.

Me: “How many Da-Da-Da-Dahs do you want?” Beethoven: “Yes” P/S: It is interesting to know that video is just counting.

1:31 You just missed the entire repeated segment