Hoozan
SajjadAhmad please could you help me eliminate option (C) (D) and (E) in Q3. They all seem appropriate and I am finding it tough to correctly eliminate these choices
Hi
Hoozan,
If I may,
For Question 3:
Consider the lines:
Quote:
"German musicologists developed the historical subdiscipline known as “performance practice,”..............The cutoff date for this study was understood to be around 1750, the year of Bach’s death."
and
Quote:
" late baroque music had ceased to be performed for nearly a century, with the result that orally transmitted performing traditions associated with it were forgotten."
and
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"In contrast, the notation in the music of Haydn and Mozart from the second half of the eighteenth century..........having never ceased to be performed, had maintained some kind of oral tradition of performance practice."
All the above lines imply that German musicologists of the early twentieth century limited performance practice to pre-1750 works because
unannotated performing traditions had been maintained for the later works.
Option C can be eliminated because as mentioned in the 1st quote, the cut off date was around 1750, the year of Bach’s death. Now we cant be certain if it was exactly 1750, or a little earlier or little later.
Option D is incorrect, as can be inferred from the lines: "The reason for this demarcation was that the music of Bach, Handel, Telemann, and their contemporaries did call for obsolete instruments and voices and unannotated performing traditions.", so basically option D is opposite of what's mentioned in the passage.
Option E is incorrect, because the German musicologists did not limited performance practice to pre-1750 works because they considered the music written prior to 1750 obsolete. It was because they believed in re-establishment of lost oral traditions associated with those forgotten repertories.
Hope This Helps.
Thanks.