LSAT 21 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q8

RC Question 8 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Lines 56-59 show how Temperley has defined the school: a group of musicians who wrote music between 1766 and 1873.

Lines 37-38 show that Temperley thought the group had too much variety to be classed as a formal school.

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1. Temperley only treats the school as a group of people who wrote music at the same time. He never says whether they had much else in common.
2. CORRECT. This matches Temperley’s definition of the school as a group of people who wrote music in London between 1766-1873.
3. Ringer’s theory was that the Pianoforte school influenced Beethoven. But this isn’t proven. And the school likely did other things apart from influence one famous musician.
4. The Pianoforte school was a group of musicians, not a group of compositions.
5. Same as D.