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Field 16: Music
Sample Aural Items

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Sample Test Directions for Aural Items

This section of the test includes questions that involve listening to a recorded passage. Passages will vary in length. Some passages may consist of a single chord or phrase. In these cases, the passage will be repeated. However, unless otherwise indicated, each passage will be played only once.

The audio will begin automatically once you advance to the next screen. There will be 20 seconds of silence before the audio passage begins to play. During these 20 seconds, you should familiarize yourself with the test question.

Once the audio begins, you will not be able to pause, stop, or replay it. Therefore, listen carefully. You will not be able to go back and review your answers to questions in this section of the test. Once you move to the next question, you will not be able to go back to previous questions in this section. Therefore, be sure to select your answer carefully before you move to the next question.

Click the Next button when you have finished reading these directions and are ready to begin the listening section of the test. Be sure you have your headset on before proceeding.

Sample Items

Objective 0019
Recognize characteristics of Western (European) music from 1750 through 1900 in a musical recording.

1. Which of the following composers most likely wrote this excerpt?

(The examinee would listen to a one-minute excerpt from the Coriolan Overture, Op. 62, by Ludwig van Beethoven.)

  1. Hector Berlioz
  2. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven
Answer
Correct Response: D.

Correct Response: D.

The next section of this test includes questions that require the identification of musical errors. While listening to the musical example, read the score shown. Select the best response to the question presented. Each example will be played twice.

You will not be able to go back and review your answers to questions in this section of the test. Once you move to the next question, you will not be able to go back to previous questions in this section of the test. Therefore, be sure to select your answer carefully before you move to the next question.

Objective 0011
Identify performance errors in a recording of a musical score.

2. Use the score below and listen to the excerpt to answer the question that follows.

(Excerpt: Original music. The alto sings an F instead of an E on the downbeat of measure 3. Errors are shaded.)

In this excerpt, which of the following performers makes an error in pitch? (The excerpt will be played twice.)

  1. the baritone in measure 2
  2. the alto in measure 3
  3. the baritone in measure 5
  4. the soprano in measure 6
Answer
Correct Response: B.

Correct Response: B.

Objective 0001
Understand the components of a score.

3. Use the example below to answer the question that follows.

Treble Clef staff has a Quarter note on C with a symbol on top that resembles a quarter rest turned on its side with a vertical line down the middle.

A high school director is arranging a piece from the Baroque period for string orchestra. Which of the following would be the correct realization of the ornamentation symbol in this example?

  1. Treble Clef staff has a Series of six beamed notes. First five are thirty second notes, and the sixth is a dotted sixteenth note. From left to right: D, C, D, C, D, C.
  2. Treble Clef staff has a Series of four beamed sixteenth notes. From left to right: D, C, B, C.
  3. Treble Clef staff has a Series of three beamed notes. First two are thirty second notes, and the third is a dotted eighth note. From left to right: C, B, C.
  4. Treble Clef staff has a Series of four beamed notes. First one is an eighth note, the second and third are thirty second notes, and the fourth is a sixteenth note. From left to right: B, C, B, C.
Answer
Correct Response: C.

Correct Response: C.

Objective 0003
Understand the elements of harmony.

4. Use the example below to answer the question that follows.

What is the chord progression of this excerpt?

  1. upper i dash i i sup six sub four baseline dash upper v sup seven baseline dash upper i
  2. upper i dash upper i upper v dash upper i dash upper v
  3. upper i dash upper v sup six baseline dash upper i dash upper v
  4. upper i dash upper i upper v sup six baseline dash upper v dash upper i
Answer
Correct Response: D.

Correct Response: D.