Excerpt from my music textbook:

[sweetballad]

"Beethoven's work is usually divided into three periods: early (up to 1802), middle (1803-1814), and late (1815-1827)."

Wow, I wonder how they came up with such creative names for periods.

Comments

[trypanophobic34]

Oh, I heard it was usually divided into these three periods: first, second, and third.

[sweetballad]

Some scholars argue it was young, middle aged, and old.

[trypanophobic34]

Only renegade scholars say that.