Critical Reasoning
试题详情
题目：
There is no surviving recording of the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s performance of a piece that Ellington wrote for the orchestra late in his career. Two different bands have recently recorded the piece, each claiming to have made an authentic reproduction of the Ellington Orchestra’s performance. One of these two recorded performances, however, is much closer to Ellington’s own handwritten score, and must therefore be the more authentic of the two.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
选项:
A、In an attempt to foil plagiarizers, Duke Ellington frequently wrote some parts of his pieces in code, so that the written scores misrepresent what Ellington’s orchestra played.
B、None of the musicians in either of the two bands had been members of Ellington’s orchestra during the period when the piece was part of its repertoire.
C、Some of the pieces that were credited as Duke Ellington’s compositions when they were recorded or published were actually composed by Duke Ellington’s collaborator, Billy Strayhorn.
D、The piece is believed to have been recorded by the Duke Ellington Orchestra during a recording session several years after it was written, but the recordings made at this session have been lost.
E、A saxophonist who was in Ellington’s orchestra at the time the piece was written later formed his own band, which performed the piece in an arrangement that differed from Ellington’s handwritten score.
答案:
A
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