AP Music Theory 2011

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<p>Anyone take the Music Theory test today?</p>

<p>My thoughts:</p>

<p>--K-Pop what the hell?</p>

<p>--MC overall wasn't bad, though some of the non-aural were kinda weird.</p>

<p>--Aural FR was good (except for that augmented 4th on #4; what the heck was the figured bass supposed to be)?</p>

<p>--FR #5 was rape. 6 and 7 were pretty easy.</p>

<p>--Sight-singing was a joke.</p>

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<p>Yeah the Korean Pop music thing was pretty funny. I actually recognized some of the other classical pieces!</p>

<p>But dang, the MC asked so many technical questions… I didn’t know a lot of the vocab (like retrogression, escape tone). My teacher never went over those.</p>

<p>The melodic dictation #2 was insanely hard, but all the other dictations were easy. I left #2 nearly blank but pretty sure I got a 100% on the others.</p>

<p>FR #5, #6, #7 were so easy, I finished with 20 minutes remaining. #7 though was kinda wierd, you had to do really weird cadences.</p>

<p>Sight singing, both were so much harder than the other years. I couldn’t even tell what was happening with all the sharps on #2, I just sang the whole thing as major… ***</p>

<p>Hoping for a 4</p>

<p>JUST HUMAN GEO LEFT</p>

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<p>I thought the multiple choice without listening was easy, and the second half of the listening was easy. The first few problems were challenging, though.</p>

<p>I agree about the sightsinging. whaaa…? Also, the figured bass for some of the notations stuff was not easy! The listening portion… I thought the one in 6/8 was really hard.</p>

<p>It was so much more tiring than I expected it to be! Even more tiring than the USAP exam.</p>

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<p>I was expecting a lot worse. I thought the multiple choice section was really easy, pretty sure I got all points on FR 1 and 2, most of them on 3 and 4. 5 6 and 7 were okay I guess. I never actually learned that stuff since I self studied, but I’m pretty sure I got at least half the chords and most of the cadences right. </p>

<p>Sight-singing was a complete joke, except my school had technical difficulties and the first person took 40 minutes to record and save.</p>

<p>Cliffs: Music theory is an easy test.</p>

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<p>The symphonic excerpt on the MC was the 3rd movement of Dvorak’s Eighth, which I had played 2 years ago, so that was nice. I didn’t recognize anything else, though.</p>

<p>I self-studied this, so I probably should have went over the terms a bit more (period/double period, etc.); I kinda got burned there when I shouldn’t have.</p>

<p>FR 5 was really weird…864? 643? What the heck? And the 4–3 on FR 6. I had never ever seen those before, so I just reasoned my way through it.</p>

<p>I actually thought sight-singing and the dictations were really, really easy, but I guess perfect pitch skews that viewpoint.</p>

<p>EDIT: Anyone know the name of the K-Pop song/have the YouTube link? I kinda want to listen to the whole thing, even though I wouldn’t understand any of it.</p>

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<p>The MC was really easy, didn’t study the Free response enough, and my voice sounded really strange on the sight singing, I’ve never sung before.</p>

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<p>I was very happy about the inclusion of Korean pop music. I was loving the sax in it, too.</p>

<p>The sight-singing was easy except for the 3rd measure in the minor one… Holy hell. I hit the vast majority of the pitches and rhythms but I slowed my tempo mid-piece in order to get it right. =/ The major one was a piece of cake though. </p>

<p>Most of the MC was pretty easy, but I had trouble pacing myself on the free response. Although what I did answer was probably correct, I had to leave a few spots blank because I ran out of time. Overall, it was pretty decent. Almost fun, even.</p>

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<p>Same feeling here. I’ve been doing music for such a long time, and it just felt kinda fun to take a test on it.</p>

<p>And I agree, the second sight-singing (esp. that 3rd measure) was weird (but doable, for sure).</p>

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<p>lmao, I’m not a music theory student, but I am Korean. They had K-pop on there? That’s hilarious… what could it have been possibly about?</p>

<p>P.S. This exam sounds difficult. I really am jealous of you musically-inclined people…</p>

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<p>i took the music theory test last year.</p>

<p>k-pop? what in the world?</p>

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<p>Everything about this test was easy. The alterations in the 2nd melodic dictations and sight-singings were predictable and what I’d practiced. The 2nd harmonic dictation alteration was one that I hadn’t seen before, but I know I nailed the chord and think I nailed the inversion. I’ll write everything on staff paper and scan it on Wednesday.</p>

<p>Overall, this test was a complete joke, and if I didn’t get a 5 with two 5s as subscores, I will be surprised.</p>

<p>On a random note, did anybody happen to read the lyrics on the last non-aural score on the multiple choice? They were in English, and they were really freaking weird…</p>

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<p>I would hope that they were referring to God with that song. :P</p>

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<p>I’ve never heard the word “alloy” used to refer to anything but a mixture of metals. Hahahahahahahahahahaha</p>

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<p>I’d like to know the name of the korean song, too, if possible! I have a friend who took the test and wants it on his ipod :)</p>

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<p>WHAT WAS THAT KPOP SONG?!?!?!?</p>

<p>Otherwise, I botched the first two dictations and the sight singing. The first 4 aural MC were difficult but from there it was smooth sailing. Although… I got hung up on one section of the non-aural MC and had to rush the rest. -_-</p>

<p>Composition was easy… hoping for a 4, though a 3 or a 5 could be possible.</p>

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<p>MC was mostly OK. There were some terms that I didn’t know at all. (At least half of us laughed at the Kpop. xP)</p>

<p>Dictation was a little easier than what we did in class, but not great. Figured bass and melody harmonization were kind of iffy, but the chord progression problem was fine. Failed sight-singing completely.</p>

<p>Predicting a mid 4 to low 5… I was feeling kind of uncertain on a good deal of the MC for some reason.</p>

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<p>I got a 9 on the first sight singing. The MC was ridiculously easy, i thought, but the FRQ was @#!<em>% . The melodic was okay, but the first harmonic… </em>shoot self*. And i was time crunched on most of the rest of the test. I usually destroy the part-writing, but the first part-writing was impossible! I kept getting unresolved chordal sevenths, direct 8s, parallel 5ths, improper escape tones, etc. The composition was a joke.</p>

<p>Sightsinging took about 35 minutes. :smiley: techincal difficulties. :slight_smile: too bad i had to take physics later…
Ah well, can always take it next year.
And *** korean pop???
L2OL6??? XD</p>

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<p>FRQs: <a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
Sight-singing: <a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;

<p>I can’t access the audio prompts yet, but I can try to do the dictations to the best of my ability when I get home tonight.</p>

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<p>Keasbey Nights’s FRQ solutions #1-5: <a href=“http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/4264/ccf0511201100000.png[/url]”>http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/4264/ccf0511201100000.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Keasbey Nights’s FRQ solutions #6-7: <a href=“http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8641/ccf0511201100001.png[/url]”>http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8641/ccf0511201100001.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>From all I can remember:</p>

<p>I definitely got a V-VI on #5.
I had the tenor voice doing the 4-3 on #6 instead of the alto. Is that OK?
I had a direct 5th and direct 8th on the last two notes of #7. :P</p>