Midterm Exam: This Is A TIMED Exam. Please Do NOT Unfold Your Answer Sheet Until I Give The Signal To Begin

21M.
301—Spring 2005 Name _____________________________
MIDTERM
EXAM
This is a TIMED exam.

Please do NOT unfold your answer sheet
until I give the signal to begin.
Part I: Scales, intervals, and triads (25 points; recommended time budget = 10 min.)
1. Requested by scale-degree name;

specify by PITCH-CLASS
(letter, plus “#” or “b” as needed)
F major e minor D major g minor

supertonic mediant
submediant leading tone
subdominant dominant
2. Identify the following intervals, specifying both quality (P, M, m, d, A) and size (2, 3, 4, etc.)

 

  
  
 
  
   
  
 
3. Identify the following triads by Roman numeral within the keys requested.
Use uppercase and lowercase numerals as dictated by the qualities of the triads.
If a triad is foreign to a key, write “X”; do NOT write a Roman numeral with alterations.
     
     
  
  
     
G: Bb:
e: g:
Part II: Fill-in-the-blank (25 points; recommended time budget = 15 min.)
1. In any seventh chord, the seventh MUST resolve _________________ by ___________.

(adverb) (interval)
2. In an _________________ voice, the leading tone MUST resolve _________________ by

(adjective) (adverb)
_____________ to ________. In an _________________ voice, the leading tone may

(interval) (scale deg.) (adjective)
resolve normally, or it may move _________________ by _____________ to _______.

(adverb) (interval) (scale deg.)
3. A third-inversion dominant seventh chord
MUST resolve to a _______________________ _____________.

(position) (triad)
4. A first-inversion dominant seventh chord
MUST resolve to a _______________________ _____________.

(position) (triad)
5. A leading-tone triad in first inversion is normally used to connect a _________________
(position)
_____________ to a _________________ ___________ (or vice versa), i.e., as an

(triad) (position) (triad)
elaboration of a passing motion in the bass voice. Another chord commonly used to
connect these same triads is the _______________________ _________________________ .

(position) (chord)
6. In a four-part texture, the cadential six-four is normally realized in the following manner:
the bass takes ___________, one of the upper voices doubles ___________, another upper
(scale degree) (scale degree)
voice moves from a sixth above the bass to a _____________ above the bass, and the remaining
(interval)
upper voice moves from a fourth above the bass to a _____________ above the bass
(interval)
(i.e., to the ___________________).

(scale degree)
Part III: Error identification (25 points; recommended time budget = 20 min.)
1. Identify the key, and label the harmonies with the appropriate Roman numerals and figures.
2. Identify any errors. You may use lines, arrows, circles, abbreviations, or prose
(or any combination thereof) to pinpoint the location and nature of each error.
 
      

   
     


    

       
  
     
   
   
 
 
    
  
   

      

 
Part IV: Four-part writing (25 points; recommended time budget = 25 min.)
1. a) Identify the key, and label the harmonies with the appropriate Roman numerals.
b) Supply the upper voices, maintaining a four-part vocal texture.
 
  

         

6 ¿ 6 6 6 ————6 6
5 4 ———–#4
2
The “Yes, I have delved into the textbook” extra-credit question:
In part II, question 1, you completed a “law” that applies almost universally in European
classical music. Within units 1 through 10 of Aldwell & Schachter, there is only ONE
legitimate exception to this law. For up to five extra points, describe the exception; be sure to
specify its necessary conditions of harmony and counterpoint, and explain how the seventh is
understood to resolve.

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21M.

301—Spring 2005 Name _____________________________

This is a TIMED exam.

1. Requested by scale-degree name;

F major e minor D major g minor

1. In any seventh chord, the seventh MUST resolve _______ by _.

2. In an _ voice, the leading tone MUST resolve _ by

_ to . In an _____ voice, the leading tone may

resolve normally, or it may move ___________ by _ to _.

3. A third-inversion dominant seventh chord

MUST resolve to a ___________ _.

4. A first-inversion dominant seventh chord

MUST resolve to a ___________ _.

_____ to a _ ___ (or vice versa), i.e., as an

connect these same triads is the _ ___ .

(i.e., to the ___________________).

      

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