Logical Reasoning

PT130 · S1 · Q10 Music historian: Some critics

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Music historian: Some critics lament the fact that impoverished postwar recording studios forced early bebop musicians to record extremely short solos, thus leaving a misleading record of their music.

Given

Some critics lament the fact that impoverished postwar recording studios forced early bebop musicians to record extremely short solos, thus leaving a misleading record of their music.

But these musicians’ beautifully concise playing makes the recordings superb artistic works instead of mere representations of their live solos.

Furthermore, the conciseness characteristic of early bebop musicians’ recordings fostered a compactness in their subsequent live playing, which the playing of the next generation lacks.

10.

The music historian's statements, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?

  1. Representations of live solos generally

    Too Strong

    The second statement implies representations of live solos need not be valuable artistic works, but it does not suggest that such representations generally are not artistically valuable.

    2% picked this

  2. Correct

    The difficult postwar recording conditions

    Why this is right

    The difficult postwar recording conditions forced early bebop musicians to record concise solos that are superb artistic works and which fostered a compactness in their subsequent live playing.

    Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    91% picked this

  3. Short bebop recordings are always

    Too Strong

    In the example of early bebop, the short recordings had some beneficial consequences, but that does not mean that short bebop recordings are always superior to longer ones.

    1% picked this

  4. The music of the generation

    Too Strong

    The next generation does lack the compactness in their live playing exhibited by early bebop musicians, but that is only one criterion on which to compare the two generations of musicians.

    4% picked this

  5. Musicians will not record extremely

    Reversal

    This reverses the first SS → DRC statement which says that difficult conditions forced musicians to record extremely short solos, but this answer suggests that musicians will record short solos only if difficult recording conditions force them to do so.

    2% picked this

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