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Beethoven’s music foreshadowed the musical style of the Romantic era. All the traits listed below are characteristic of the style of both Beethoven and the Romantic period, with the exception of:

This document was an expression of despair over the onset of deafness. Beethoven wrote it as something akin to a last will.

This genre is a large-scale sacred composition including an overture, arias, recitatives, and choruses, but sung, whether in a theater or a church, without costumes, makeup, or scenery.

Identify the term that is synonymous with Gregorian chant.

Dissonant chords add __________ to the music.

Find the composer not  representative of the Classical period.

 This composition is considered the first true opera in Western music

Find the composer  is not representative of the Middle Ages

What is the term for the interval that comprises the first and eighth tones of the major and minor scales? These tones are quite similar because the frequency of vibration of the higher pitch is exactly twice that of the lower.

This term is the opposite of program music i.e. free of a text or any preexisting program.