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chapter ten Beethoven: Bridge
to Romanticism
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learning objectives
After studying the material in this chapter, you should be able to:
1 Characterize Beethoven’s music and its traditional division into three periods.
2 Articulate why Beethoven’s music can be heard as representative of the Classical period and of the early Romantic era as well.
3 Describe Beethoven’s piano music from his early period, as typified by his “Pathétique” Sonata.
4 Elaborate on the symphonies from Beethoven’s “heroic” period, using his Symphonies No. 3 and No. 5 as examples.
5 Characterize Beethoven’s late period, using his Symphony No. 9 as an example.
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