#7 - Global Reference, Purpose/Function

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (E).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E): This is the correct answer choice.

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[mahsan]

Hi,

I was conflicted between answer choices D) and E) for this question and ultimately chose D. I felt that the discussion of the coherency of the school and whether it should even be called "school" as deemed by Ringer was stated pretty heavily in the passage. Why is E) a stronger answer?

[Malila Robinson]

Hi Mahsan,
If you look at the first sentence of the passage it sets up a problem: "the general unavailability of music of this "school" in modern scholarly editions." It goes on to say that the scholar who has addressed this problem is Temperley, and then the rest of the passage describes Temperley's work in relation to how it addressed the deficiency in relation to the London Pianoforte school. Because of that, Temperley's scholarly contributions to a noted deficiency related to the London Pianoforte school, are directly related to a primary purpose question. That leads to E as the correct answer.
Answer D instead focuses on Ringer, and and states that Temerley's theory was an alternate theory to Ringer's. But it is not clear from the passage that this is true. What it says is that: "...Temperley concedes that their "variety may be so great as to cast doubt on the notion of a ‘school.’" The notion of a school was first propounded by (40) Alexander Ringer, who argued that..." This type of concession does not amount to an alternate theory, which would need a stronger assertion and validated evidence. Instead, it is almost a side-note; the two scholars had different definitions of a school, but that divergence wasn't the focal point of either of their scholarly research.
Hope that helps!
-Malila

[mahsan]

Malila,

That clarifies it. Thank you!