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Descriptive Statements:
- Identify key signatures and pitches using a given clef.
- Define musical symbols and terms, including tempo markings, articulation symbols, dynamic indications, and expression markings.
- Demonstrate knowledge of note values, rest values, and time signatures.
Sample Item:
The first group consists of a dotted eighth, sixteenth, and eighth note. The second group consists of 3 eighth notes, with the last eighth note tied to the first eighth note in the third group. The third group consists of an eighth note, tied to the previous eighth note as just described, and 2 sixteenth notes.
Which of the following best completes the measure shown above?
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B. This question requires the examinee to demonstrate knowledge of
note values, rest values, and time signatures. The examinee is asked to select the
correct rhythmic values necessary to complete a measure of 12/812 slash 8 time. The given measure
contains only eight eighth-notes worth of time. The correct response includes an eighth
rest and a dotted quarter note, which provide the four eighth-notes worth of time needed
to complete the measure.
Descriptive Statements:
- Identify scales, tonality, and melodic intervals.
- Analyze melodic characteristics, including phrase structures, contours, and other melodic devices.
- Analyze rhythmic characteristics, including meter, patterns, and other rhythmic devices.
- Identify harmonic intervals, chord types, and chord inversions.
- Analyze cadences, harmonic progressions, and nonchord tones.
Sample Item:
Which of the following represents a natural minor scale?
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C. This question requires the examinee to identify a natural minor
scale. Musicians often derive this scale by starting on the sixth note of the major
scale. The pattern of whole (W) and half steps (H) for the natural minor scale is:
W-H-W-W-H-W-W.
Descriptive Statements:
- Demonstrate knowledge of musical styles, forms, textures, and compositional techniques.
- Analyze musical examples in terms of musical styles, forms, textures, and compositional techniques.
- Apply knowledge of common practice harmonization using appropriate voice leading and chord selection.
- Apply knowledge of arranging for various instruments, voices, and ensembles.
- Demonstrate knowledge of improvisational techniques.
Sample Item:
Which of the following musical forms typically includes an exposition, a development,
and a recapitulation?
- minuet and trio
- da capo aria
- sonata-allegro
- theme and variations
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C. This question requires the examinee to demonstrate knowledge of
musical forms. Developed during the Classical period, sonata-allegro form typically
includes an exposition of the themes with a modulation to a related key, a development
of the themes and motives, and a recapitulation that presents all of the themes in the
tonic key.
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