LSAT 107 – Section 4 – Question 22

LSAT 107 - Section 4 - Question 22

October 1999

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PT107 S4 Q22
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Must be false +MBF
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
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A
8%
160
B
12%
162
C
72%
166
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159
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5%
161
144
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166
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Critic: Most chorale preludes were written for the organ, and most great chorale preludes written for the organ were written by J. S. Bach. One of Bach’s chorale preludes dramatizes one hymn’s perspective on the year’s end. This prelude is agonizing and fixed on the passing of the old year, with its dashed hopes and lost opportunities. It does not necessarily reveal Bach’s own attitude toward the change of the year, but does reflect the tone of the hymn’s text. People often think that artists create in order to express their own feelings. Some artists do. Master artists never do, and Bach was a master artist.

Summary

Bach was a master artist. Master artists never create music to express their feelings, but other artists (i.e., some non-master artists) do. This can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences

Bach never created music to express his feelings. This means the chorale prelude discussed in the stimulus was not made to reveal Bach’s attitudes toward the change of the year.

A
Bach believed that the close of the year was not a time for optimism and joyous celebration.

This could be true. The stimulus doesn’t offer information on how Bach felt about the year ending. While his prelude on this topic wasn’t celebratory, we know that Bach’s music wasn’t designed to express his feelings.

B
In composing music about a particular subject, Bach did not write the music in order to express his own attitude toward the subject.

This must be true. Bach was a master artist, which implies that he never created music to express his feelings.

C
In compositions other than chorale preludes, Bach wrote music in order to express his feelings toward various subjects.

This must be false. Master artists such as Bach never create music to express their feelings. If someone does create music to express their feelings, they must not be a master artist, and therefore must not be Bach, as shown in the diagram below.

D
Most of Bach’s chorale preludes were written for instruments other than the organ.

This could be true. While we know that most great chorale preludes written for the organ were composed by Bach, we don't have information about his preludes for other instruments. Bach's organ preludes may have been fewer in number compared to his preludes for other instruments.

E
Most of the great chorale preludes were written for instruments other than the organ.

This could be true. We know there are some great chorale preludes written specifically for the organ—we don’t know how these compare in number to the great chorale preludes for other instruments.

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