Students should be prepared to notate progressions that are in either the major or minor mode. The chord progression that is played for question 4 will be more difficult than the chord progression played for question 3. Students are provided with a grand staff, key signature, time signature, figured-bass notation, and the initial starting notes for each of the four voices of the progression. Students are to notate the upper three voices for each of the chords and are to provide a Roman and Arabic numeral analysis for each of the chords in the progression. Question 6 requires the student to write a bass line and provide a harmonization to accompany a short melody that has been provided.
Students provide a Roman and Arabic numeral analysis for the progression that they have created.
Part B Questions 1 and 2 Questions 1 and 2 are two different sight-singing melodies that students perform individually in a private session. Each student's performance is recorded using an audiocassette tape recorder. Students will complete questions 1 and 2 either before or after they have completed the written free-response questions in Section II of the exam. Students are scored on the accuracy with which they perform the notated pitches and rhythms of the melody. Students are NOT scored on the tone quality of their singing voice.