The attribution of the choral work Lacrimae to the composer Pescard (1400-1474) has been regarded as tentative, since it was based on a single treatise from the early 1500' s that named Pescard as the composer. Recently, several musical treatises from the late 1500' s have come to light, all of which name Pescard as the composer of Lacrimae. Unfortunately, these newly discovered treatises lend no support to the attribution of Lacrimae to Pescard, since __. Which of the following most logically completes the argument?
A: the later treatises probably had no source for their attribution other than the earlier treatise
B: the author of the treatise from the early 1500's had no very strong evidence on which to base the identification of Pescard as the composer of Lacrimae
C: the treatise from the early 1500's misidentifies the composers of some of the musical works it considers
D: there are works that can conclusively be attributed to Pescard that are not even mentioned in the treatise from the early 1500's
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
A