How do we know that the loud crash in the fourth movement of Symphonie fantastiquerepresents the fall of the guillotine?
a) The music evokes the image without question.
b) Berlioz arranged for a guillotine on stage during the first performance.
c) Guillotines were an important part of popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris.
d) Berlioz wrote it in the program.
d
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A. Impressionism. B. Symbolism. C. Expressionism. D. Primitivism.
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