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Descriptive Statements:
- Identify scales, modes, tonality, and melodic intervals.
- Identify harmonic intervals and chord types.
- Demonstrate knowledge of note duration, rest duration, and time signatures.
- Analyze melodic characteristics, including phrase structures, contours, and other melodic devices.
- Analyze cadences, harmonic progressions, and nonchord tones.
- Analyze rhythmic characteristics, including meter, patterns, and other rhythmic devices.
Sample Item:
Use the example below to answer the question that follows.
The graphic presents an incomplete measure of rhythmic notation in 12/8 time as follows: dotted eighth note, sixteenth note, eighth note, eighth note, eighth note, eighth note tied to an eighth note, sixteenth note, sixteenth note.
Which of the following best completes the measure?
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B. A measure of music in 12/812 slash 8 time should contain twelve eighth notes' worth of 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 extra eighth notes' worth of time needed to complete the given measure.
Descriptive Statements:
- Identify key signatures and pitches using a given clef.
- Demonstrate knowledge of musical symbols and terms, including tempo markings, articulation symbols, dynamic indications, and expression markings.
- Demonstrate knowledge of musical styles, forms, textures, and compositional techniques.
- Apply knowledge of arranging and composing for various instruments, voices, and ensembles.
- Demonstrate knowledge of improvisational techniques.
Sample Item:
A musician is improvising over a standard 12-bar blues progression in G major. Measures 5 and 6 should be played over which of the following chords?
- B major
- C major
- D major
- G major
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B. A standard 12-bar blues progression is built on the chords I, IV, and Vone, four, and five and is typically as follows: I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-IV-I-Ione-one-one-one-four-four-one-one-five-four-one-one. In G major, the subdominant (IV) chord is C major. Therefore, a musician should plan to improvise over C major chords in measures 5 and 6 of the progression.
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