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Passage A.

Music and Words · Can work well together

Words can bring out emotions but words are "inadequate" to express those emotions. This is where music comes in. It can express those emotions and cause further emotions to come out. So words benefit from being set to music.

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Cost · Each art loses its purity

Subordinate words to music · Music is more expressive

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Example · Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; operas

The aesthetic value mostly comes from the emotional range that music can bring forth.

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Two kinds of operas · 1. Music is primary; 2. music and other factors have parity

1. Called singer's opera, Italian; 2. German, balances music and other factors.

Third Kind of Opera · Music is subordinate

Earliest opera were like this but nobody liked them.

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Judging Operas · Must judge music and words together

Can be separately judged for formal analysis but in the end they have to work well together along with the other elements of the opera, e.g., "visual action."

Passage Style

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Implied

The correct answer will present a question that each passage attempts to answer. We can anticipate that the correct answer will likely have something to do with the combination of words and music in opera, because that is a subject discussed in each passage. But it’s difficult to come up with a more specific prediction.

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Passage B doesn’t discuss whether music is more expressive than poetry.

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Passage B doesn’t discuss whether the emotive power of poetry is enhanced by being set to music. Although Passage B does mention that we can evaluate poetry in connection to any music which it is set in an opera, but that doesn’t imply anything about whether the power of poetry is enhanced by being set to music.

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Neither author discusses whether opera should get the same level of respect as other kinds of music.

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Answered by Passage A and Passage B.

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Neither author discusses how opera is different from “all” other musical art forms.

PrepTest 151 - Section 1 - Passage 3 - Question 15

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