Questions 12-15 refer to the following passage.

According to the passage, the musical contributions of Polish women have been neglected due to

a. An absence of any documentation of the efforts of female composers

b. Improper preservation of musical scores produced by women

c. The male-dominated social order that has existed since at least the fifteenth century

d. Society willfully ignoring the talent and hard work of female composers

e. The fact that people did not realize the genius and creativity of female composers

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Line (5) Women played a substantial role in the furthering of the Polish art song in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. One notable woman from this time period was Maria Szymanowska, who was both a concert pianist and a composer. Szymanowska was a member of the Warsaw Music Society who contributed pieces to a cycle entitled Historical Songs. Her songs are by far (10) the most creative and individualistic of the cycle. In addition, Szymanowska composed more than one hundred other pieces, mostly for the piano, including six romances.