Information and IdeasVery hardEvidence for a claim about a composer's manuscript
Information and Ideas practice question
A musicologist argues that a manuscript score was written by the composer's assistant, not by the composer himself, though it bears the composer's signature.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. The handwriting of the notes matches the assistant's letters in every distinctive feature, while the composer's own manuscripts show a different hand; only the signature matches the composer.Correct
- B. The composer employed an assistant for twenty years.
- C. The manuscript is on the same paper the composer usually used.
- D. The score has several corrections.
Answer: A. The handwriting of the notes matches the assistant's letters in every distinctive feature, while the composer's own manuscripts show a different hand; only the signature matches the composer.
The hand is the assistant's; only the signature is the composer's.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The composer employed an assistant for twenty years.
- Employment does not show who wrote this score.
- C. The manuscript is on the same paper the composer usually used.
- Shared paper supports either author.
- D. The score has several corrections.
- Corrections do not identify the writer.
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