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Descriptive Statements:
- Demonstrate knowledge of styles, genres, performance practices, and other musical characteristics of music from the Middle Ages to 1750.
- Demonstrate knowledge of major composers and major works from the Middle Ages to 1750.
- Compare music from different stylistic periods.
- Analyze ways in which music reflects cultural factors, historical developments, technological changes, and aesthetic values.
Sample Item:
The compositional style of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is characterized by:
- syllabic vocal lines and regular phrase structures.
- chromatic harmonies and large melodic leaps.
- syncopated rhythms and repeated notes.
- stepwise vocal lines and polyphonic textures.
Correct Response and Explanation (Show Correct ResponseHide Correct Response)
D. This question requires the examinee to demonstrate knowledge of major
composers from the Renaissance. Representative of late-sixteenth-century vocal polyphony,
the musical style of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is characterized by stepwise voice
leading, carefully controlled treatment of dissonances, and imitative textures.
Descriptive Statements:
- Demonstrate knowledge of styles, genres, performance practices, and other musical characteristics of music from 1750 to the present.
- Demonstrate knowledge of major composers and major works from 1750 to the present.
- Compare music from different stylistic periods.
- Analyze ways in which music reflects cultural factors, historical developments, technological changes, and aesthetic values.
Sample Item:
The string quartet first appeared as a musical genre during which of the following periods
of Western music history?
- Romantic
- Classical
- Baroque
- Renaissance
Correct Response and Explanation (Show Correct ResponseHide Correct Response)
B. This question requires the examinee to demonstrate knowledge of genres
from 1750 to the present. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732– to 1809) played a significant role in the
emergence of the string quartet genre at the beginning of the Classical period.
Descriptive Statements:
- Demonstrate knowledge of styles, genres, performance practices, and other musical characteristics of music from the United States.
- Demonstrate knowledge of major composers, musicians, and works of music from the United States.
- Identify types and characteristics of traditional music from a variety of cultures within the United States and around the world and instruments associated with various musical traditions.
- Analyze ways in which music from the United States reflects the country's cultural factors, historical developments, technological changes, and aesthetic values and ways in which musical styles from around the world have influenced the development of music in the United States.
Sample Item:
Which of the following styles of Latin American music typically features the following
instrumentation: two trumpets, two or three violins, one guitar, one vihuela,
and one guitarrón?
- mariachi
- mambo
- calypso
- salsa
Correct Response and Explanation (Show Correct ResponseHide Correct Response)
A. This question requires the examinee to identify instruments associated
with various musical traditions. A typical mariachi ensemble includes the instruments
listed.
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