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May 2005

SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

SCORE IDENTIFICATION PRACTICE EXAM

This document is designed to help incoming students prepare for the scoreidentification part of the Music History placement exam. (To prepare for the first half of

the exam, go to the Norton website: http://www.wwnorton.com/grout/index.htm.)

Beginning on page 3 below are 39 score excerpts from the Norton Anthology of Western Music – one excerpt per page. Page 2 contains a pair of lists, one of musical

genres, the other of composer names. You should print page 2 and keep the lists handywhile you practice. Look at each score example and try to hear the music in your mind’s

ear. Also look for visible clues, such as number of parts, instrumentation, language of text, etc. Now try to pick the name of a genre and of a composer from the two lists. Also

try to guess the date of composition within about 50 years. The answers are printedupside down at the bottom of each page. Rotate the score in Adobe Acrobat to see the

answers. If you get an answer wrong and want to refresh your memory about theimportant features of this score, look at the commentary on the piece in the Norton

Anthology.

Do not memorize these scores or these answers! This document is only a sample testfor study purposes. The scores on the placement exam will be drawn from all the scores

in the Norton Anthology, not just the scores below. And on the exam you will not beexpected to know all the composers, dates, or even genres – just to have a reasonable grip

on most of the scores.



POSSIBLE ANSWERS FOR SCORE IDENTIFICATION

Genre termsanthem

ballet

cantatachansonchorale prelude

concerto grossoconductus

fantasiaflorid organum

fuguekeyboard concerto

keyboard sonataLied

lute songmadrigal

massmotet

nocturneopera aria

opera duetopera recitative

oratorio passacaglia

prelude psalmody

sequencesimple organum

string quartetsymphony

theme and variationstroubadour song

trouvere songtoccata

tone poemtrio sonata

violin concerto

Composer namesAnonymous

Notker Balbulus

Bernart de VentadornLéoninPhilippe de Vitry

Guillaume de MachautGuillaume Du Fay

Johannes OckeghemJosquin Desprez

Claudin de SermisyAdrian Willaert

Carlo GesualdoThomas Weelkes

John DowlandWilliam Byrd

Giovanni da PalestrinaClaudio Monteverdi

Barbara StrozziJ. B. Lully

Henry PurcellGiovanni Legrenzi

Arcangelo CorelliAlessandro Scarlatti

Antonio VivaldiDietrich Buxtehude

J. S. BachG. F. Handel

Domenico ScarlattiC.W. Gluck

Joseph HaydnW.A. Mozart

Ludwig van BeethovenMuzio Clementi

Franz SchubertGioachino Rossini

John Field

Hector Berlioz

Frederick ChopinFelix MendelssohnRobert Schumann

Johannes BrahmsGiuseppe Verdi

Richard Wagner Gabriel Fauré

Claude DebussyMaurice Ravel

Bela Bartok Igor Stravinsky

Charles IvesArnold Schoenberg

Alban BergAnton Webern

Aaron CoplandRuth Crawford Seeger

Olivier MessiaenDmitri Shostakovich

Milton BabbittElliott Carter

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