Contents:

• Exam Schedule
• What to Expect
• What to Bring
• Security
• Essay Questions
• Listening Examples
• Terms Questions

• Friday, May 2, 7:45-9:45 am, Recital Salon
• Sunday, May 4, 11:00 am-1:00 pm, Recital Salon

I will take a poll at the last Unit Quiz just to figure out how many to print of each verision of the Final Exam, but you can still change your mind after that if you want. 

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• Security will be tighter than it has been during the semester.
  
• Twenty listening examples chosen from the list below, with 4 questions about each one: Title, Composer, Type of piece, and Time period or Century. Everyone takes the Listening part of the Final Exam, which will count as 50% of your Final Exam grade. That grade, in turn, will be weighted according to which Grading Option you picked.
  
• Then, your choice of
  • 38 multiple choice questions, covering terms, names, and definitions from Chapters 18-27 plus additional material covered in class but not in the textbook, worth 50% of your Final Exam Grade, or
    
  • 2 essay questions, selected in advance from the list of questions below, prepared in advance, and written during the exam, each worth 25% of your Final Exam grade.

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• Several dark pencils, sharpened, with erasers. There is a pencil sharpener in the airlock opposite the one you come in through.
• A couple of pens for the Essay.
• A clip board to write on. Office Max has them for about a buck.
• Two university Bluebooks for your essay questions, if you choose that option. Both bookstores have them for about 25 cents. Do not mark anything inside or outside the book. They will be collected and passed out at random. See the section on essay questions.

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The Final Exam is worth 20%, 25%, or 30% of your final grade, depending on the Grading Option you have contracted for. I do not assume that anyone will attempt to cheat, and I do not expect anyone to try to cheat, but I want to remove the temptation as much as possible. Sorry about that, but to do otherwise would not be fair to the majority of students who are completely honest.

• All personal belongings are to be put on the back of the stage. You may have one clipboard to write on, but no books, notebooks, or papers.
  
• Everyone is to sit with at least one seat between you and anyone else.
  
• Very specific instructions will be given regarding your Bluebooks, and any Bluebooks not formatted exactly according to those instructions will not be accepted, thereby costing you half of your final exam grade.
  
• On the top of the opscan sheets and the front of the Bluebooks there are places to acknowledge that in accordance with the University's Honor Code, you neither give nor receive help on this Exam. These must be signed, and will not be accepted if they are not signed, thereby costing you up to the entire exam.

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Select two of the questions from the list below. Prepare to write essays on those questions during the final exam. The object is for you to become expert on the subjects of your choice.

Be as brief in your essay as possible while covering the subject thoroughly. You may use prose with complete sentences and paragraphs, a formal outline presentation, or any combination of the two. The object is to communicate your knowledge as completely and as efficiently as possible.

Spelling counts. Use specific examples and name names, dates, places, and specific musical works when appropriate. The more facts you accurately provide and the better you have them organized, the higher you will score.

If you want to work from outlines, you may write that outline in the back of your Bluebooks after they have been collected and passed out at random while the outlines are fresh in your mind. Be as complete as possible, and then stop! In the past, the best essays have been about 5-7 pages in length, but the content is more important than the length of the essay.

Bring totally blank Bluebooks to the exam. They will be collected and passed out at random.

Do not write your essay ahead of time and bring it to the exam. Special security measures will guard against that possibility, and you could lose all your essay points unless you listen carefully and follow the instructions exactly. It has happened in the past.

The Questions:

• 1. Trace the development of the Symphony as a musical form from the Pre-Classical period through the first part of the 20th century, mentioning major trends and changes, and giving attention to the several developments arising from Beethoven's experiments in this form.
  
• 2. Trace the development of Opera from the Classical period through the early 20th century, with attention to the various national schools as well as to the specific directions taken by various composers. Include both grand opera and the lighter forms.
  
• 3. Trace the development of American Popular Music, Jazz, and Musical Theater from the early 19th century through about 1990, with attention to the shifting relationships among the three types of music, and with attention to the composers, arrangers, or performers associated with specific developments.
  
• 4. Outline the major developments in music technology in the 20th century.
  
• 5. Compare and contrast the music and the philosophies behind the music in the three nationalistic areas of Russia, Hungary, and Bohemia/Moravia.
  
• 6. Describe the various schools of art music composition that have arisen since World War II, with attention to the composers associated with each, and to important representative compositions in each school.
  
• 7. The year is 1871. Who are the important living composers and what are the important musical happenings in different countries? What are the important social, political, and geographical events that are taking place?

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For the Final Exam, the examples used will be chosen from those listed in boldface type on the Recording Index. The 20 examples will be played in chronological (chapter) order.

The 4 questions for each example will be in multiple choice format, and will be:

• Identify the title of the piece
• Identify the composer
• Identify the type of piece
• Identify the time period or country of origin of the piece

These 4 questions are interconnected, and the answers are carefully written so that only one combination of answers is really logical for each example.

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• 38 questions, multiple choice.
  
• Covers the entire semester's work.
  
• No trick questions intended. In fact, the answer sets are written very carefully so that if you know the answer it will be obvious, and if you are not sure of the answer you will be able to cross out at least one or two because they are obviously wrong.
  
• The last class meeting will be a review session on terms.