|Question 26Verbal

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
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  • In music theory, the term “key” refers to the set of musical notes that forms the foundation of a piece of music.
  • In Ideas Toward an Aesthetic of Music (1806), German poet and composer Christian Schubart describes the mood of various musical keys.
  • He describes the key of C minor as expressing “longing.”
  • “Don’t Speak” (1996) by No Doubt is a song written in C minor.
The student wants to explain how Schubart describes C minor. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
The key of C minor is one of various keys, which are sets of musical notes that form the foundations of pieces of music.
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In Ideas Toward an Aesthetic of Music, Schubart describes the mood of C minor.
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In Ideas Toward an Aesthetic of Music, Schubart describes the mood of C minor as expressing “longing.”
C
The song “Don’t Speak” could be described as expressing “longing.”
D