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Old 20 Apr 2005, 04:51 AM   #11
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^ The hypothesis (on my part anyway) is that the Roman numeral for 5 is V, hence as Beethoven's 5th has the very distinctive "···–" as its first bar, Morse assigned this pattern to V for that reason.

Incidentally, the usual spelling in music is "motiv" (the German spelling, still pronounced "motif")...
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