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Exam practice
Timed practice for GACE Music 723, set out in the board's own sections. Every answer comes with an explanation.
GACE Music (P–12) (723) is a licensure test for music teachers, owned by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission.
This practice test covers aural skills, theory and composition, education and performance, and history, for Georgia music teachers.
The listening questions use our own piano recordings. They cover intervals, chords, cadences, meter, texture, 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 87 questions.
Study mode has no clock. It checks each answer as you go.
In an Orff-based lesson, students create a two-measure pattern and repeat it under a song. What is the pattern called?
The answer is B, Ostinato.
Ostinato means a short figure repeated throughout a passage, a basic layer in Orff accompaniment. A canon imitates the melody at a time interval. A coda ends a piece. A cadenza is a solo display passage.
A kindergarten class needs an untuned percussion instrument with a long, ringing sound for the ends of phrases. Which instrument fits?
The answer is A, Triangle.
A triangle struck while hanging freely rings for several seconds. The woodblock and claves give short, dry clicks. The guiro is scraped and makes a rasping sound that stops when the scraping stops.
Which description best fits the field of ethnomusicology?
The answer is B, The study of music in its cultural context, often through fieldwork.
Ethnomusicologists study any music, including Western traditions, as part of human culture. Fieldwork with participant observation is a central method, and Alan Merriam described the field as the study of music in culture.
Exam mode gives 2 hours 30 minutes for the whole practice test. It holds 87 questions. Study mode has no clock.
It follows the board's order: Aural Analysis Skills, Composition and Music Theory, Music Education and Performance and Music History and Culture.
Yes. Each answer comes with an explanation of why it is correct.
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