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One reason why European music has had such a strong influence throughout the world, and why it is a sophisticated achievement, is that over time the original function of the music—whether ritual, dance, or worship—gradually became an aspect of its style, not its defining force. █████ █████ █████ █████ ███████████ ██ ██████ ███ ████████ ███ ██████ █████ ███████████ ██ █████████ ████████ ███████ ████ ███████████ ███ ██ ████ ████████ █████████ ████ ███ █████ ██████████ ███████ ██ ███████ ███ ███████
Summary
European music has had a strong influence throughout the world, and it is a sophisticated achievement.
One reason for this is that the original function of the music gradually became an aspect of its style, but didn’t define the music.
For example, dance music can stand independent of dance, and sacred music can stand independent of religion.
European music has so much internal coherence that it doesn’t depend on anything besides the music itself.
Notable Valid Inferences
There’s no clear inference to draw here. I’d rely on process of elimination to identify what must be false.
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a
African music has ███ █ ████ ████████ ██████ ██ ███ █████ ████ ████████ █████ ███ ████
Could be true. We’re never told European music has had the most powerful impact on the world. So it could be true that another kind of music had a more powerful impact.
b
European military and ████████ ████████████ █████████ ████████ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ ████████ ██████
Could be true. We were told about one reason European music has been so influential. So there can be other reasons, too.
c
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Could be true. Perhaps Chinese music is also influential and sophisticated because the original function of the music isn’t a defining force.
d
Music that is ██████████████ ████ ██ ██ █████████ █████████████ ██ ███ ████████ ████████ █████ ██ ██ ███ ████ █████████████ ██████
Incompatible. We were told that one of the reasons European music is sophisticated is that it can stand apart from its original function. So it doesn’t make sense for the music unable to stand apart from original function to tend to be the most sophisticated.
e
Some works of ███ ████ █████ ██████ ████ ████ ███ █████████ ██ █████ █ ████████ █████ ████ █████ ████████ ████
Could be true. Some works might lose their appeal when they’re presented to serve a function other than the original. European music, however, is different from these works.