What Gives the Opening of the First Movement of Symphony

question 9

Multiple Choice

What gives the opening of the first movement of Symphony No.5 in C Minor its "improvisational,primal quality"?

• A) the fanfare of the bassoons
• B) the use of polyphony
• C) the use of fermatas in the presentation of the opening motive
• D) the use of the upper range of the woodwind section

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