Identify the leitmotif played by the brass instruments in this listening example
from Die Walküre
a. fallen warriors
b. Wotan’s power
c. Gräne (Brünnhilde’s horse)
d. Valhalla, the house of the gods
e. the Valkyries
E
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a. true b. false
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