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

Exam Schedule: You have a free choice of two exam times. No hassle. No paperwork. No special permission. Choose the time that makes your life easiest during exam week!

I will take a poll at the last class meeting just to figure out how many to print of each verision of the Final Exam, but you can change your mind after that if you want. Take advantage of this offer to make your life easier!

• Security will be tighter than it is during the semester.
  
• Twenty listening examples chosen from the Examples in boldface type on the Recording Index page, with multiple choice answers just like the Unit Quizzes. 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 (See Syllabus).
  
• Your choice of
  • 38 multiple choice questions, covering terms, names, and definitions from Chapters 1-17, 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.

• 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 Essays if you choose the Essays. YOUR WRITING MUST BE READABLE!!!
  
• A clip board to write on. Office Max has them for about a buck. The Music Department has only a few lap boards.
  
• Two university Bluebooks for your essay questions, if you choose the Essays. 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.

The Final Exam is worth 20%, 25%, or 30% of your final grade, depending on the 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 large majority of students who do not try to cheat.

• 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. And no cellphones, PDAs, or camera phones. Texting is cheating!
  
• Everyone is to sit with at least one seat between you and anyone else. Do not sit in the wheel chair areas unless you are in a wheel chair or otherwise handicapped and have given me a Form from the Dean of Students.
  
• 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 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.

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 two subjects of your choice.

Be as brief in each essay as possible while covering the subjects 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 a memorized outline, you may write that outline in the back of your Bluebook after they have been collected and passed out at random, when the Exam begins and it is fresh in your mind. Be as complete as possible, and then stop! In the past, the best essays have been about 5-7 Bluetbook pages in length, but the content is more important than the length of the essay.

Bring two totally blank Bluebooks to the exam. They will be collected and passed out at random. Write each essay in a separate Bluebook.

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 to people in the past, and it is a violation of the Virginia Tech Honor Code.

The Questions:

• 1. Trace the development of Passion Music from the 5th through the mid-18th centuries.
  
• 2. Trace the development of polyphony from the 9th century through the end of the Ars Antigua.
  
• 3. Trace the development and spread of opera from the late 16th century through the mid-18th.
  
• 4. Trace the development of the Italian madrigal from the late 15th through the early 17th centuries.
  
• 5. Compare and contrast the vocal music of the prima pratica of the 16th century with that of the seconda pratica of the 17th.
  
• 6. Compare and contrast the lives of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friderich Händel, and show how the course of their lives affected the kinds of music they wrote.
  
• 7. The year is 1453. Who are the important living composers and what are the important happenings in different countries? What are the important social, political, and geographical events that are taking place, and what is their significance?

These examples are chosen from the ones that are marked in boldface type on the Recording Index page.

The examples will be played in approximate chronological order. The answers are in multiple-choice format, just as in the Blackboard Listening Quizzes and the Listening portion of the Unit Quizzes.

• 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 on Wed Dec 10 will be a review session on terms and on the Final Exam in general.