Chris Bonds wrote:
>... The equation V (for victory) = ...___ came out after the War and
>was symbolic of the allied victory. Thus the symphony took on symbolic
>significance because the last movement represents a sort of triumph over
>the first. And V of course is Roman numeral for 5. Quite a coincidence.
Was it a coincidence? I'm under the impression that Samuel Morse
deliberately made dot-dot-dot-dash the symbol for V precisely because
it is the Roman numeral for 5. Is this one of those urban legends?
Mitch Friedfeld