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by Fab » Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:18 am
Q14:
Which of the flowing most logically completes the argument?

The attribution of the choral work Lacrimae to the composer Pescard (1400 – 1474) has been regarded as tentative, since it was based on a single treatise from the early 1500’s that named Pescard as the composer. Recently, several musical treatises from the late 1500’s have come to light, all of which name Pescard as the composer of Lacrimae. Unfortunately, these newly discovered treatises lend no support to the attribution of Lacrimae to Pescard, since _______.

A. the treatise from the early 1500’s misidentifies the composers of some of the musical works it considers
B. the author of the treatise from the early 1500’s had no very strong evidence on which to base the identification of Pescard as the composer of Lacrimae
C. there are works that can conclusively be attributed to Pescard that are not even mentioned in the treatise from the early 1500’s
D. the later treatises probably had no source for their attribution other than the earlier treatise
E. no known treatises from the 1600’s identify Pescard as the composer of Lacrimae
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by raunekk » Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:46 am
imo:D

OA??

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by stop@800 » Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:22 am
I am also with D
If later treatises used prev ones as reference means they does not contain any hresh information and hence should not be considered.
The correction continuation.

OA please?

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by mals24 » Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:24 am
IMO also D

This is the only option that logically completes the argument.

The argument concludes that the new treatises provide no support. Why is that?? Because they are all based on the same single source.

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by bhumika.k.shah » Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:45 am
why not C ? whats wrong with C ?

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by Focus_gmat » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:06 am
C shows an issue with the treatise from the early 1500's , but the conclusion of the argument is about
treatises from the late 1500's. Hence C cannot be the answer

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by mehravikas » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:59 pm
The answer should be D. The argument mentions that only a single treatise is based from the early 1500 that named Pescard as the composer and recently several later 1500's treatises have named Pescard as the composer.

D says that the later 1500's treatises have no other information other than earlier treatise i.e. the single tentative treatise.

There the information they have used as a reference lends no support as it regarded as tentative.
Fab wrote:Q14:
D. the later treatises probably had no source for their attribution other than the earlier treatise