Craft and StructureHardCommon ground on how taste develops
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
A conductor argues that orchestras should programme more new music, since audiences can never grow to love what they never hear.
Text 2
A concert promoter warns that programmes of unfamiliar music sell fewer tickets, but concedes that audiences do warm to new pieces once they have heard them several times.
Based on the texts, the conductor and the promoter would most likely agree with which statement?
- A. Audiences come to like new music after hearing it more than once.Correct
- B. Orchestras should stop playing new music altogether.
- C. Programmes of new music always sell well.
- D. Familiar music no longer deserves a place in concerts.
Answer: A. Audiences come to like new music after hearing it more than once.
The conductor's premise is that hearing leads to loving; the promoter 'concedes that audiences do warm to new pieces' with repetition.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Orchestras should stop playing new music altogether.
- Neither text proposes that.
- C. Programmes of new music always sell well.
- The promoter says such programmes sell FEWER tickets.
- D. Familiar music no longer deserves a place in concerts.
- Neither text attacks familiar music.
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