PrepTest 104, Section 2, Question 3
The career of trumpeter Miles Davis was one(460 more words not shown)
The passage suggests which one(15 more words not shown)
- AIt was characterized(9 more words not shown)
- BIt equally balanced(4 more words not shown)
- CIt was a(6 more words not shown)
- DIt is regarded(10 more words not shown)
- EIt was played(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Davis began by studying bebop. We aren't given a separate description of all his early music, but we are told how the 1948 group changed things: it slowed the tempos and emphasized ensembles more, “in direct reaction to bebop.”
What we’re looking for
That contrast gives us a prediction. The earlier music should be faster and more focused on solos.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Rapid tempos and an emphasis on solo playing match the music the new group was reacting against. We get these traits from the stated changes, not from outside knowledge of jazz.
- B
Giving ensembles equal or greater attention is part of the later change. It doesn't describe the earlier emphasis on solos. Nor does that earlier emphasis mean the music consisted entirely of solos.
- C
Breaking free from restrictive chord patterns comes later in Davis's career. His continuing habit of innovation doesn't establish that this particular description fits his music before 1948.
- D
Critics disliked his departures from earlier styles, but nobody calls this the only authentic jazz.
- E
Jazz clubs sound plausible. We still aren't told where he primarily performed before 1948. The New York location we do get is a later apartment gathering.
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