Department of Fine Arts – Music Program
Comprehensive Exam for the Bachelor of Arts in Music
Department of Fine Arts – Music Program
Comprehensive Exam for the Bachelor of Arts in Music
The comprehensive exam for the B.A. in music is given twice a year in October
and February. All music majors must take the exam after completing the music
history sequence (700:291,292,293, and 294). We strongly advise you to take
the exam before your last semester. Please contact the music program coordinator,
Prof. Schiavo, for more information: 225.6539 or e-mail Schiavo
Composer Dates
You will be given a list of 20 composers, selected from the
list below.
Provide a date that falls within each composer's mature career.
To be counted correct, the date must be after the composer’s 20th year
and before his or her death.
| Hildegard von Bingen |
F. Couperin |
Berg Webern Debussy Ravel Sibelius Elgar Vaughan Williams Bartok Stravinsky Prokofiev Shostakovich Schnittke Poulenc Hindemith Weill Britten Tippett Ives Cowell Copland Barber Sessions Varèse Boulez Stockhausen Babbitt Berio Carter Crumb Reich Glass Adams (100 names) |
Title Identification
You will be given a list of of about 30 works, selected
from the list below.
For each work, identify the composer and provide an approximate date.
To be counted correct, the date must be within 20 years of the actual date.
|
Victimae paschali laudes |
Saul, was verfolgst du mich |
Jupiter Symphony Idomeneo Le nozze di Figaro Don Giovanni Cosi fan tutte Die Zauberflöte Fidelio Sonate pathétique Sinfonia eroica Rasumovsky Quartets Kreutzer Sonata Pastoral Symphony Appassionata Sonata Emperor Concerto Diabelli Variations Missa solemnis Grosse Fuge The Hebrides Overture Italian Symphony Scottish Symphony Spring Symphony Variations on a Theme by Haydn Symphonie fantastique Harold en Italie A Faust Symphony Les Préludes Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture Pathétique Symphony Swan Lake New World Symphony |
| Death and the Maiden Quartet Wanderer Fantasie Songs without Words Carnaval Kreisleriana Symphonic Etudes Années de pèlerinages Trout Quintet Erlkönig Die schöne Müllerin Winterreise Dichterliebe Frauenliebe und –leben Italienisches Liederbuch Grande Messe des Morts Les Huguenots Les Troyens Faust Carmen Il barbiere di Siviglia Guillaume Tell Lucia di Lammermoor Norma Rigoletto La Traviata Don Carlos Aida Otello Falstaff Manzoni Requiem La Boheme Tosca Turandot Der Freischütz Tannhäuser Tristan und Isolde Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Der Ring des Nibelungen |
Parsifal |
The Fire Bird Petrushka Le Sacre du printemps L’Histoire du soldat Pulcinella Les Noces Oedipus Rex The Rake’s Progress Symphony of Psalms Classical Symphony Leningrad Symphony Verklärte Nacht Pierrot lunaire Lyric Suite Quatuor pour la fin du temps Le Marteau sans Maître Gesang der Jünglinge Poème électronique Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima Ionisation Klavierstück XI Rhapsody in Blue Concord Sonata Three Places in New England The Banshee Appalachian Spring Dover Beach Four Saints in Three Acts Philomel Ancient Voices of Children Black Angels Einstein on the Beach Nixon in China Sinfonia (1968) Sequenza (200 titles) |
Terms/Names
You will be given a list of of about 20 terms, titles,
or names, selected from the list below.
For each, provide definitions or identifications and indicate
the repertory and time period to which it applies.
| Tetrachord Boethius Guido of Arezzo Musica enchiriadis Authentic modes Plagal modes Liber Usualis Matins Vespers Proper Ordinary Neume Psalm tone Trope Sequence Conductus Troubadour & trouvères Organum Rhythmic modes Magnus Liber organi Clausula Motet Petrus de Cruce Hocket Ars nova Roman de Fauvel Isorhythm Ballade Virelai Rondeau Caccia Musica ficta Mensuration canon Fauxbourdon Cantus firmus L’homme armé Imitation mass |
Parody mass |
Tragédie lyrique |
Leitmotif Gesamtkunstwerk Mighty five (handful) Impressionism Expressionism Neoclassicism Polytonality Gebrauchsmusik Octatonic scale Atonality Pitch-sets Sprechstimme Sprechgesang Dodecaphonic music Serialism Combinatoriality Non-retrogradable rhythm Musique concrète Indeterminacy Open form Metric modulation Minimalism Post-modernism (125 terms) |