PrepTest 104 - Section 2 - Passage 1 - Question 5

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The career of trumpeter Miles Davis was one of the most astonishingly productive that jazz music has ever seen. ███

Intro topic · Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis

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Author's perspective · Davis' genius is overlooked

Critics' perspective · Disliked Davis' tendency to change up his style

Davis' first stylistic change · from bebop to slower-tempo, more ensemble-focused music

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Second stylistic change · toward less restrictive chord changes, more unified and understated sound

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Third stylistic change · Electronic instrumentation, rock beats, improvisation, heavily produced in studio

Jazz purists' perspective · Negative view of Davis' heavily edited studio work

Purists believed jazz recordings should resemble live improvisation rather than be heavily reworked

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Main point · Critics' negative views stem from Davis' refusal to meet their expectations

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Analogy (RC)

This Analogy question asks for a creative process that is similar to Davis’s studio procedure of the late 1960s. In P4, we see that his procedure was to have musicians improvise from a base script, then afterwards, he would put together finished pieces out of the tapes. We are looking for an example that takes parts from individual works based on a base script and combines them to make the finished product.

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We are looking for an example that takes parts from individual works based on a base script and combines them to make the finished product; (A) is missing the aspect of combining the different aspects to make one final work.

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We are looking for an example that takes multiple parts from individual works based on a base script and combines them to make the finished product; (B) is missing the aspect of several artists improvising from a base script, and it is missing the aspect of combining the different aspects to make one final work.

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Davis would record different musicians improvising from a base script then combine the different tapes to make a finished product; Davis’s procedure did not involve people rehearsing separately then performing together.

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(D) parallels Davis’s procedure. This example that takes parts from individual works (different artists’ photos) based on a base script (the assigned theme) and combines them to make the finished product (the collage).

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We are looking for an example that takes parts from individual works based on a base script and combines them to make the finished product. (E) describes choosing the best individual work to submit, so it is missing the aspect of combining several individual works.

PrepTest 104 - Section 2 - Passage 1 - Question 5

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