SAT OwlQuestion bank / Words in Context
Composer Florence Price's Symphony in E Minor, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933, was the first symphony by a Black woman to be played by a major American orchestra. Price drew on spirituals and on dance rhythms such as the juba, ______ these traditions into the formal structure of the European symphony to create a work that was distinctly her own.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
isolating
weaving
abandoning
withholding
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Answer: B
Price brought spirituals and dance rhythms into the symphonic form to make something new. "Weaving" means combining elements into a whole, which matches "into the formal structure." The other words describe separating, giving up, or holding back those traditions.
Choice A, "isolating," suggests keeping the traditions apart from the symphony, the opposite of blending them into it.
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