... . Wherever this system has been successfully used, it has been by composers who were already well trained enough to distinguish the musical results. In 1804, Ludwig van Beethoven began growing deaf. He had begun composing at age seven and would compose another twenty-five years after his impairment took to full effect. Creating music in a state of inaudibility, Beethoven had to ... experimentation molded modern musical practices, instruments, and music itself into what it is today. What Pythagoras found so wonderful was that his elegant, abstract train of thought produced something that ...

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