Section I: Multiple Choice
75 Questions | ~1 Hour 20 Minutes | 45% of Exam Score

• Approximately 13 sets of 4–6 questions.

• Approximately 10–12 individual multiple-choice questions.

• Questions that assess students’ ability to use symbols and terms to describe features, procedures, and relationships in performed music.

  • Students will also be assessed on their ability to detect discrepancies in pitch and rhythm when comparing notated and performed music.

• Questions that assess students’ ability to use symbols and terms to describe features, procedures, and relationships in notated music.

• All stimulus materials represent a variety of historical style periods, including baroque, classical, romantic, late 19th or 20th century, and contemporary (world music, jazz, or pop).

• Both instrumental and vocal music are represented.

Section IIA: Free Response: Written
7 questions | ~1 hour and 10 minutes | 45% of Exam Score

The seven questions include:

• 2 melodic dictation

• 2 harmonic dictation

• 1 part writing from figured bass

• 1 part writing from Roman numerals

• 1 composition of a bass line/harmonization of a melody

Section IIB: Free Response: Sight Singing
2 questions | ~10 minutes | 10% of Exam Score

The student will be asked to sing and record two brief, primarily diatonic melodies (of about 4–8 bars).