Describe the Three Compositional Style Periods of Beethoven

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Essay

Describe the three compositional style periods of Beethoven.Characterize each period and name one work Beethoven wrote during each of the last two periods.

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Definitions:

Multiple-Personality Disorder

Now known as dissociative identity disorder, a psychological condition where an individual possesses two or more distinct identities or personality states.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Bipolar Disorder

A mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings including emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).

Dissociative Identity Disorder

A psychological disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states or identities within a single individual.