Which composition is based on a falling half-step motive, an interval used

throughout the history of music to denote pain and suffering?



a. Haydn’s Quartet Op. 73, No. 3, the “Emperor”
b. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, the “Eroica”
c. Mozart’s Don Giovanni
d. Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata
e. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40


E

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