Q5

[peg_city]

Why is A wrong in this question?

"By 1969 Davis's typical studio procedure was to have musicians improvise from a base script of material and then to build finished pieces out of tape, like a movie director."

[skapur777]

A gets it backwards. It says that the comedians (aka musicians) write their own script when instead the musicians improvise BASED on the script, they don't write their own.

B- wrong because it lacks the idea of putting the tapes together at the end into one cohesive unit
C- they dont assemble them to rehearse the piece together, rather miles davis had them all record separately and would put it together from each separate take
D- exactly what is paralleled here
E- completely wrong

It kind of helped that I'm very into jazz and playing Miles Davis music so I was very familiar with this passage.

[giladedelman]

Me too! Though I think this passage's assertion that Miles has never gotten his due is utter balderdash.

Anyway. Yes, the key thing here is that he would have the musicians play, and then take the recorded stuff and assemble it the way he wanted -- just like the collage mentioned in answer (D). Answer (A), in addition to what skapur777 said, is also incorrect because it makes no mention of assembling different pieces.

[mic_a_chav87]

they dont assemble them to rehearse the piece together, rather miles davis had them all record separately and would put it together from each separate take

This is what threw me off on this question, I simply could not found where in the passage it said they recorded separately. Judging from the text they easily could have all been jamming in one room.

Is it "common knowledge" that Jazz musicians record tape separately and then it gets compiled into a track later? I don't think so...

[Mab6q]

I think the problem with D is that it just misses the part about the process impromptu.

[LolaC289]

I'm not sure what the original sentence means from line 39-40. What does it mean"...to build finished pieces out of tape"?

Does it mean putting all pieces together to generate a tape? If that is the case, shouldn't it be "to build a tape out of finished pieces"? I thought it means using the pieces that were not originally from already finished tapes during the test...