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What is motivic consistency?
a single motive that is heard constantly, in many different forms, but not in random forms.
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Where was Beethoven born?
Bonn, Germany
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What was Beethoven most afraid of?
Beethoven had a fear of loneliness.
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Beethoven's first music teacher was his father, and at the age of eight performed his first concerto.
true.
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What are the two major moods that Beethoven uses in his works that set them apart from Haydn or Mozart?
excitement and urgency
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What is the ascribed disability that Beethoven developed?
Beethoven was increasingly going deaf as he aged.
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Who did Beethoven admire as a hero and originally named a symphony after him?
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Only Beethoven's immediate family attended his funeral.
False, approximately 20,000 people attended Beethoven's funeral.
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How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?
Beethoven composed nine symphonies, the most famous one is called Eroica.
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Beethoven became a well known______ soon after becoming a student of Haydn in Vienna.
Virtuoso pianist, for his ability to play his own compositions and improvisations.
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what made Beethoven feel like a failure?
His efforts to marry a woman. He wanted to create a family of his own.
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Beethoven raised his son Carl, who he violently punished to get what he wanted.
false, he gained custody of his nephew Carl after his brother passed away. Beethoven was overprotective and had frequent mood swings.
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What was the musical movement that Beethoven replaced the traditional minuet with?
He replaced the minuet with scherzo, a fast, rushing movement in triple meter.
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Musicians realized the amount of difficulty in executing many of Beethoven compositions. Based on Beethoven's personality, what do you think his response was to this?
He said that when it came to composing, he took no notice of the inability of performers. (did not care)
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what did Beethoven hate doing?
Beethoven hated teaching. He became frustrated and impatient with his students.
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Beethoven worked simultaneously on more than one composition, while never having the urge to rush through his works to finish.
this statement is true.
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Beethoven was the predominate musical figure between what two eras?
eighteenth-century Viennese classical style and nineteenth-century Romanticism.
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What purpose does the Heiligenstadt testament serve?
It is a letter to his brothers Carl and Johann Beethoven and it served as a suicidal note.
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who did Beethoven want to study with in Vienna?
Beethoven hoped to study with Mozart, when he first went to Vienna.
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Beethoven's string quartet and piano sonata compositions sound completely different than his symphonies.
False, Beethoven's new techniques within piano and string playing allowed him to make his compositions sound like symphonies.