Music 206  Exam Challenge Information 

If you are interested in challenging the final level of musicianship (206), you must contact the course coordinator, Dr. William Benjamin, by August 1 for first term challenges, (or by January 1 if second term challenges are being given). (e-mail: benjamin@interchange.ubc.ca) Requests received after the cutoff date will not be accepted. Students who have received a "W" in the previous term have the opportunity to retest in the first week of the new term: students with "W" who passed one part of the final exam are only required to retest the other component. Students who have received an "F" must take both parts of the challenge exam. The challenge exams will be scheduled during the first week of classes and these exam times will be confirmed by the beginning of term.

As a general guide, Music 206 follows Gary S. Karpinski's Sight-Singing and Dictation Manual, Ch. 63-74 and Anthology for Sight Singing, Ch. 41-50. Therefore, the examples on the challenge exam will be of the level and content equivalent to the examples in those chapters in the Karpinsky texts.

The 206 Musicianship Exam has two parts:

1. Written:

(a) Melodic Dictation: melody with some chromatic alterations, modulating to a cadence in a closely related key;

(b) Melodic Dictation: error detection in a notated melody that is incorrectly played;

(c) Harmonic dictation: description of a modulating sequence: identify outer voices and chords in the first two bars (before the sequence starts), name chord on which sequence starts, identify the interval by which the sequence moves (ascending second, descending third, etc.), indicate chord on which sequence breaks off, and identify goal of modulation. Sequences will be taken from these two sheets: sheet 1; and sheet 2;

(d) Aural analysis of form: answer questions about a short piece in binary form. Two example pieces are given, one somewhat more complex than the other. Piece 1; and Piece 2; Sample questions are provided for each piece.Piece1 Questions; and Piece2 Questions;

3. Performance:

(a) Prepared Melodies: Sing any two (examiner's choioce) of the following melodies from the Karpinski Anthology: 990, 991, 995, 1010, 1016, 1017, 1026, 1033, 1034, 1036. You will be asked to conduct with the appropriate beat pattern, and you are judged on both pitch and rhythmic accuracy. It is not necessary to use solfege in challenge exams.

(c) Sight-sing two modulating melodies slightly less complicated than the prepared melodies

You must be above the accepted minimum standard on each component to complete this final, required level of musicianship courses.Please e-mail me if you have any questions.

Thank you

Dr. William Benjamin

School of Music

UBC

e-mail: benjamin@interchange.ubc.ca