Download Graduate Entrance Exam in Music History at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and more Exams Number Theory in PDF only on Docsity! The Graduate Entrance Examination in Music History School of Music University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Graduate Entrance Exam in Music History is required of all entering graduate students, with the exception of those enrolled for degrees in Music Education or Musicology. Tests will be held in the week before the fall semester’s classes begins, on Tuesday August 18h 2015, from 6:00pm to 8:30pm. The exam covers music from the Western classical tradition in two historical periods: music before 1750; and music from 1750 to the present day. Students who do not pass either part of the exam will be required to remediate their knowledge and understanding by taking the relevant review class MUS 501A (Graduate Music History Review I; fall 2014) or MUS 501B (Graduate Music History Review II; spring 2015) and passing it with a Grade of B- or higher. Please note: students failing the entrance exam must successfully complete the MUS 501 review class(es) before progressing to graduate-level courses in Musicology. This means that not passing the entrance exam may significantly slow down your progression through your graduate degree. ------------------------------------------ Format of Exam The history exam is in two parts: In Part One (Music before 1750) you will be asked to respond to 40 multiple-choice questions and write an essay response to a discursive question about music (there will be a selection of questions to choose from). Some questions may require an ability to comment meaningfully on score extracts. The questions and essays are weighted equally. In Part Two (Music from 1750 to the present day) you will also be asked to respond to 40 multiple-choice questions and write an essay response to a discursive question about music (there will be a selection of questions to choose from). Some questions may require an ability to comment meaningfully on score extracts. The questions and essays are weighted equally. Preparation Tips Candidates may prepare themselves for the exam in various ways; we recommend studying one or more of the standard histories of music (particularly Mark Evan Bonds’ A History of Music in Western Culture, 3rd edition), along with representative scores and recordings, particularly of the prescribed works listed below. Some sample questions are given at the end of this document. List of Prescribed Works Please note: all works are included in the text, score anthology and recordings for Mark Evan Bonds, A History of Music in Western Culture (3rd edition). The entrance exam will include at least three pieces from each list, within both the multiple choice and essay portions. Part 1: before 1750: 1. Léonin (?): Organum, Haec dies 2. Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame, Kyrie 3. John Dunstable: Quam pulchra es 4. Guillaume Du Fay: Nuper rosarum flores 5. Josquin des Prez: Ave Maria…virgo serena 6. Jacob Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno 7. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, Credo 8. Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo, Act II, “Tu se’ morta” 9. Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata IX from Il Secondo Libro de Toccate 10. J.S. Bach: Jesu, der du meine Seele, I Part 2: after 1750: 1. Mozart: Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 271, first movement 2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, first movement 3. Schubert: “Erlkönig” 4. Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9 5. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 6. Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps 7. Ives: “The Things Our Fathers Loved” 8. Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta 9. Cage: 4’33” 10. Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps, first movement Sample Questions Sample Multiple-Choice Questions for Part 1 (before 1750) 1. Among other accomplishments, J.S. Bach is known for three cycles of this type of genre that he wrote while employed at Leipzig. a. Operas b. Song Cycles c. Passions d. Cantatas
