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

 This composition is considered the first true opera in Western music

The musical term for loud is:

This term is synonymous with that period in philosophy and letters known as the Enlightenment

Identify the term or symbol adopted by composers to enumerate and identify their own compositions.

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

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.

Find the composer  is not representative of the Middle Ages

​What is the term Wright uses for the set of musical expectations each individual engages when listening to music? 

This composer is associated with the terms “atonal music,” “Sprechstimme,” “Expressionism,” and “twelve-tone composition”.