Benchmark Assessments

Step 1

• See your instructor to access the following 3 benchmark assessments & answer keys

• Your instructor will guide you through the ear-training and dictation portion of the assessment

1. Music Literacy Benchmark

2. Music Reading Skills

3. Final Exam Analysis

 

Step 2

• Use the answer keys and a highlighter to identify areas of needed improvement. All done :)

 

Step 3

• Use your own experience, assessment results and this Music Theory Quick Fact Sheet to rate your musical literacy for concepts A-K

 

1=Beginner, 3=Intermediate and 5=Advanced

 

A.  Pitch= 4

B.  Rhythm=  3

C.  Meter= 3

D.  Signs, Symbols & Terms= 3

E.  Scales= 3

F.  Key Signatures= 4

G.  Chords= 3

H.  Intervals= 3

I.  Ear Training= 3

J. Dictation= 3

K.  Sight Reading= 4

 

Step 4

• Please indicate the average/general outcome of this self-assessment (1, 3, 5) 3.5

 

Step 5

• Provide a general statement about your music literacy confidence level including areas of needed improvement. I'm pretty confident with identification of musical notation, but I need a lot of help with construction and tone qualities, as well as rules for progressions and identifying underlying note suggestions that establish something.

 

 

Pitch

Step 1

• Explore these resources; Take notes as needed 

1.  Every Good Boy Deserves Football

2.  Keyboard Note Identification

3.  Keyboard Reverse Identification

4.  Whack a Note

5.  Alto and Tenor Clef

6.  More on Pitch

7.  Note Identification

8.  Dave's Videos

9.  Neil's Awesome Resource Site 

 

Awesome! 

 

 

Rhythm

Step 1

• Explore these  resources; Take notes as needed

1. Note Duration

2. Rest Duration

3. Rhythmic Subdivisions

4. Dots and Ties

5. Single Beat Division & Beaming Rhythms

6. More Beaming

  7.  Dave's Videos

8.   How Rhythm Works-Basics

9.   How Rhythm Works-Tempo & Subdivision

10.  Neil's Awesome Resource Site! 

 

Awesome!

 

 

 

 

Meter

Step 1

• Explore these resources; Take notes as needed

1. Measures and Time

2. Simple and Compound

3. Another Look at Simple vs. Compound

4. Odd Meter

5. How Time Signatures Work

6. Meter and Time Signatures

7. Understanding 6/8 Time

8. Neil's Awesome Research Site! 

 

Awesome!

  

Step 4

• Does this music from Mozart's Symphony 40 in g minor feel like it is grouped in 2 or 3 beats per measure? 3 BPM

• Does this music from Haydn's Symphony 94 'Surprise' feel like it is grouped in 2 or 3 beats per measure? 2 BPM

  

 

Signs, Symbols and Vocabulary

Step 1

• Explore these resources; Take notes as needed

1. Metronome

2. Italian Terms

    

 

 

 

If Time Permits; Getting to Know Finale 

Step 1

• Find an Instructor/Peer to receive a tutorial in using Finale

• Finale Learning Center 

• See REALLY COOL interactive Finale resouce below

ALTERNATE OPTIONS TO KNOW ABOUT

• Surf around Noteflight to explore features  

• Surf around Musescore to explore features    

• Surf around Sibelius to explore features

Step 2

• Create a simple eight bar melody for flute using Finale

Step 3

Visual for Finale 

• Take a screen shot of your work and upload to Jimdo

Step 4

Audio for Finale(see home page video tutorial)

• Save Your Finale work as an audio file

• Password for enabling BOX files:  Username=bbamusic@burrburton.org & Password=1829Bulldog

• Upload audio, share, copy the embed code, add page (plus sign) and copy the embed code into the Jimdo widget

• See Example of Student Work

 

 

 

 

 

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