Listening Activity F: Xtremely Surprising!

This musical piece was composed by Franz Joseph Haydn (HI-den) 210 years ago. At that time, audiences expected music to be polite, refined, and predictable. They followed regular patterns, which are easy to determine in advance.

Haydn felt that if his music was too polite and predictable, his audiences might get bored. So, he included musical surprises to wake up the audience!

Listen to an excerpt from Symphony No. 94 by Franz Joseph Haydn and imagine you are a member of a 1792 audience. Sit straight in your chair and pretend that you are a refined listener of the 18th century. When the music begins, pretend that you become very sleepy, and each time you hear a musical surprise, you wake up! Count how many times the music wakes you up.

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How many "surprises" are there in the music you heard?