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[109]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.
Passage: Music feels like pure feeling, yet it rests on mathematics. An octave is a doubling of frequency: a note vibrating twice as fast sounds the same note, only higher. Simple ratios govern harmony: a fifth corresponds to a ratio of three to two, a fourth to four to three, and our ears hear these ratios as pleasant and stable. Rhythm is counting in time, with beats divided into halves, thirds and quarters, and a composer who breaks a pattern creates surprise precisely because the listener expected the next beat. This does not make music cold. Knowing the mathematics behind a melody is like knowing the grammar behind a poem: it explains why a phrase moves us, without replacing the feeling itself. Which of the following can be most reasonably inferred from the passage?
Option 2 : The mathematics of music has a lasting importance that goes beyond its immediate or obvious effects, and understanding it changes how we judge related choices.
Detailed Solution
सही उत्तर The mathematics of music has a lasting importance that goes beyond its immediate or obvious effects, and understanding it changes how we judge related choices. है।
The passage's evidence and emphasis support a lasting, wider significance, not dismissal or exclusivity.
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[109]. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question.
Passage: Music feels like pure feeling, yet it rests on mathematics. An octave is a doubling of frequency: a note vibrating twice as fast sounds the same note, only higher. Simple ratios govern harmony: a fifth corresponds to a ratio of three to two, a fourth to four to three, and our ears hear these ratios as pleasant and stable. Rhythm is counting in time, with beats divided into halves, thirds and quarters, and a composer who breaks a pattern creates surprise precisely because the listener expected the next beat. This does not make music cold. Knowing the mathematics behind a melody is like knowing the grammar behind a poem: it explains why a phrase moves us, without replacing the feeling itself. Which of the following can be most reasonably inferred from the passage?
Correct Answer: The mathematics of music has a lasting importance that goes beyond its immediate or obvious effects, and understanding it changes how we judge related choices.
The passage's evidence and emphasis support a lasting, wider significance, not dismissal or exclusivity.