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Exam practice
Timed practice for FTCE Music 028, set out in the board's own sections. Every answer comes with an explanation.
FTCE Music K–12 (028) is a licensure test for music teachers, owned by the Florida Department of Education.
This practice test covers fundamentals, curricula and teaching, performance assessment and program management, for Florida music teachers.
The listening questions use our own piano recordings. They cover finding errors against a printed score and judging a piano performance. Each error question plays a single melody. Performance questions judge tempo, balance, dynamics and articulation on the piano. Recognizing a style, period, instrument or voice by ear is not included. Intonation, blend, tone and diction are not included either.
Exam mode runs a clock of 2 hours 30 minutes for the whole practice test.
The full practice test holds 80 questions.
Study mode has no clock. It checks each answer as you go.
The given opening in D minor climbs A, B♮, C♯, D. Which scale does this climb use?
The answer is D, Melodic minor, rising.
Raised sixth and seventh degrees, B♮ and C♯, belong to the rising melodic minor. They smooth the approach to the tonic and avoid the augmented second from B♭ to C♯.
Students judge which of two recordings better fits the style of a Baroque dance and defend the choice. Which level of the revised Bloom's taxonomy does this task target?
The answer is D, Evaluate.
Judging against criteria and defending the judgment is evaluation in the revision by Anderson and Krathwohl. Only creating sits higher in that taxonomy.
The final note of a choral phrase ends with a "t," and the consonant sounds scattered across the choir. How does the director fix it?
The answer is D, Show a clear release and have singers place the "t" together on it.
A final consonant lands on the release, so the conductor shows the exact moment and the choir places the "t" there together. Omitting it changes the word. Releasing on individual breath guarantees scattered endings. A loud "t" makes the ragged ending more obvious.
Exam mode gives 2 hours 30 minutes for the whole practice test. It holds 80 questions. Study mode has no clock.
It follows the board's order: Music education fundamentals, Standards-based curricula and pedagogy, Performance assessment and evaluation and Program management, ethics, legal.
Yes. Each answer comes with an explanation of why it is correct.
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