<p>Tribal song was so freaking awesome.</p>
<p>Bombed dictations, as expected. The aural multiple-choice was kind of hard but the regular multiple choice and the composition were really easy. </p>
<p>Hoping for a 5, obviously, but I’d just be happy if I passed since this was my first AP ever. :)</p>
<p>Are we allowed to start talking about the level of difficulty of the exam? I don’t want to get tracked down… This was my first AP too…</p>
<p>I thought it was… BLEH. Harmonic dictation wasn’t bad, melodic dictation was FAIL though. Double fail for me, because I have perfect pitch! For a few notes I ended up making up rhythms that sounded good. And, being the nervous freshman I am, I forgot accidentals - go me!</p>
<p>I think the aural MC portion of the exam simply killed me. It just kept bullying at my weak spots. Non-aural wasn’t bad. Overall, I wouldn’t say the AP test was good. It was hard. But my perspective of things might be slightly abnormal, because I’m the type of person that is used to getting A+'s on every test… And AP’s aren’t like that. Now I know not to underestimate APs.</p>
<p>Anyways, I hope the curve is good. I thought the test was a lot harder than any practice test I had ever taken. I got 5’s on EVERY practice test, but I don’t know what to expect for this one… A 5? Maaaybe. 4? 3? 2? I really have no idea.</p>
<p>Yeah we can talk about the exam in pretty much any way; as long as you don’t like post the exact voice leading stuff or sight singing stuff there’s not much to worry about. I don’t see how they could get you for talking about the aural stuff anyway considering they’re all meaningless without the excerpts.
In anyway talk about whatever, I highly doubt collegeboard will “get” you and everyone else does it here and no one’s been abducted yet.</p>
<p>since we can talk about the music, i know that the bass aria was Bach B minor mass. i think there was some mozart serenades, perhaps string quintet? what was the orchestral piece? prokofiev something, or another modern composer? any word on the tribal stuff yet?</p>
<p>Is the curve generous enough to allow a 5 if I know the multiple choice aural section was FAIL and for melodic dictation 1 I didn’t get half of the rhythmic notation so I started making up random rhythms that worked and sounded okay and for melodic dictation 2 I did the same thing as melodic dictation 1 AND I somehow forgot the accidentals?</p>