句子并列和伴随修饰的选择问题，大全一题，请大家指点---

pierrewin

    

Traveling the back
roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering
work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity.

    

(A) Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in
1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in
ethnomusicology, and they were armed only

    

(B) In 1905, Béla
Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, traveling the back roads of Hungary, began their
pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were only armed

    

(C) In 1905 Béla
Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology,
traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only

    

(D) Having
traveled the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began
their pioneering work in ethnomusicology; they were only armed（C）

    

(E) Béla Bartók
and Zoltán Kodály, in 1905 began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary, arming
themselves only 

答案C，doing的分词省略结构这里难道没有修饰歧义：

做定语修饰ethnomusicology，或做伴随状语修饰主句？A选项又有什么错误呢？好像也没有问题？

njkf1987

伴随状语。A有歧义，Traveling the back roads of Hungary,的主语是Béla Bartók还是两人？

pierrewin

还有其他原因吗 感谢