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Which of the following would you not find in a program symphony?

only one movement
extra sounds to enhance the mood (like cannons)
a very descriptive title
instruments imitating nature sounds

User Lukas Graf
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Answer:

only one movement

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User Ahmad Nawaz
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In my opinion, the correct answer is A. only one movement. Program symphonies were written during Romanticism, which means that they had preserved the typical, 4-movement symphonic form. As program music, they had some kind of programmatic agenda, that is a story they wanted to tell, or a nature scene they wanted to depict, with all kinds of effects imitating forces of nature. The most famous examples include Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 (also known as "Pastoral Symphony"), Berlioz' "Symphonie fantastique", Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 ("Winter Dreams").

Of course, there are also programmatic symphonic poems, which only have one movement - but they are not symphonies.
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