Welcome to MkWasee
MkWasee is a noncommercial website created by an ex computer scientist
and amateur musician for the purpose of making public some of his endeavours
produced during his retirement. We begin with three items: a new kind of
hearing test, a guide to Beethoven's C sharp minor string quartet Op 131
and a more recent postscript to the guide.
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A hearing test application where a user can hear a sequence of
pure tones ranging from low to high frequency and can make volume
adjustments until the sequence is perceived to be of consistent
volume. It can be used to generate an audiogram to
present to an audiologist, partcularly in cases where the user's
hearing aids appear to be over compensated at the high
frequencies such that music appreciation is affected. Note:
This Audio app has recently been updated to include a comparison
of the current audiogram with an archived one.
Click here to view the Audio App
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A new proposal is presented as to what Beethoven could have had
in mind when composing his C sharp minor string quartet Op 131,
which is Beethoven's masterpiece and stands out amongst his other
late works because of its many unusual features, i.e. seven movements,
an openning fugue, an apparent dialogue movement and a crazy scherzo.
Click here to view the Beethoven proposal
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A postscript to the original guide to Beethoven's string
quartet in C sharp minor Op 131 that takes a more professional
approach based on a recent studied view of dates and events of
the period 1825 to 1826 that with less speculation comes to an
even more positive result. You are advised to read this before
reading the guide.
Click here to view the postscript to opus 131 guide