Haydn Mozart Beethoven

All of the different movements are making me crazy... how do I tell them apart. Take a breath and ask yourself "what am I hearing". Are you hearing instruments only, voices... this has to be the best advice of this whole class. So today I asked myself... what are you hearing... I heard questions and answers, high instruments playing a part and low instruments repeating it back. I heard the change in movements... fast-slow-fast. I heard piano only, no orchestra and knew that it was Beethoven's Pathetique. I heard the harpsichord and recitative voices talking back and forth and knew that it was La ci darem la mano I am getting better at listening, little by little. I notice when patterns repeat and when the music grows louder and gets softer, I can hear the soloist play against the orchestra. You know what, I heard a Jethro Tull song on the radio the other day and it sounded just like the music from Baroque period... how weird is that?