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CR · Critical Reasoning
705-805
Complete the Passage
Music student: Textbooks on the history of orchestral music generally devote only a small amount of coverage to the music of the past fifty years. The textbook authors generally wish to reflect the consensus among musicologists and critics regarding what are the greatest works in musical history. Thus, the consensus of these experts must be that the vast majority of history's greatest orchestral music was produced more than fifty years ago, since __
Which of the following, if correct, would most logically complete the music student's argument?
Which of the following, if correct, would most logically complete the music student's argument?
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the authors intended the textbooks to cover each orchestral musical period in proportion to how much of history's greatest orchestral music was produced in that period
B
no expert judge of musical quality considers most of the orchestral music produced in the past fifty years to be among history's greatest
C
the orchestral music to which the textbooks devote the most coverage is typically that which the authors have spent their careers studying
D
almost all the orchestral music covered in the textbooks is considered to be among history's greatest by experts who have spent their careers studying music
E
almost all expert judges of musical quality have developed their expertise at least in part by studying textbooks on the history of orchestral music
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705-805
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