QUESTION TEXT: Which one of the following could be said to be…
DISCUSSION: You should read lines 50-56 to answer this question. Schoenberg’s music was disturbing because it forces us to face difficult truths, and captures emotional states that music hadn’t captured before.
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- Vulgar humor isn’t an emotional state. It can be disturbing due to shock value, but this isn’t the same thing.
- CORRECT. This matches. The comedian is making us face disturbing truths.
- This fails because it doesn’t mention emotional states. Also, while Schoenberg started in a traditional style, he wasn’t simply copying people.
- Schoenberg didn’t have an extreme political philosophy, that we know of. Lines 50-56 are talking about music that forces us to recognize disturbing emotional states.
- Schoenberg’s music was sometimes unfamiliar and jarring, but lines 50-56 are talking about the fact that it provoked disturbing emotional states.
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