STATE EXAMINATION – MUSIC EDUCATION

MASTER’S LEVEL

1.
a) Music and Movement:

• What is the relationship of movement and music? What is the importance of movement and music in society?
• What is the connection between rhythm and metre and the physical activities of humans?
• Describe the history of the correlation between music and movement of humans.

b) Cognitive development of music education:

•  What is the foundation and development of music perception and cognition?
•  Describe the development of musical listening and understanding from a historical perspective.
• Describe the relationship between perception and listening.

2.
a) Music and Nature:

• How have musical styles been influenced by nature?
• Explain how onomatopoeia is used as a specific form of music.
• What are the characteristics of musical expressiveness in nature with reference to harmony and melody?

b) Cognitive development of music education:

• What are the stages of development of musical abilities, with specific reference to sensorimotor learning?
• How is the ability to create an accompaniment, orchestration and instrumentation developed?

3.
a) Musicality (music and sensitivity):

• What is the role of music in the media? Describe the musical characterics with similarities and differences to other art forms.
•   Define the term: soulpainting as a specific form of musical phraseology.
• Define the terms: emotion, style and musical expression in the various historic times of music (from tonal music to expressionism).

b) Cognitive development of music education:

• Define the term rhythmic sensibility and explain what it means in relation to cognitive development of music education.
• Outline a methodology for the development of the individual components of  rhythmic sensibility.

4.
a) Music and the human voice:

Describe two of the following:

•  unison singing throughout musical history and the present;
•  polyphony and its basic types (imitative and non-imitative);
•  vocal polyphony in past and present;
• song as a means of vocal speech.

b) Cognitive development of music education:

• Describe the psychosomatic conditions of singing.
• Describe a methodology of vocal education at the secondary school level.
• Outline what is meant by the term voice change, and describe how beliefs about the changing voice have changed throughout history.

5.
a) Music and musical instruments:

•  What is the importance of instrumental counterpoint in relation to musical thinking?
• Describe the development of any 3 musical instruments.
• Outline the developmental changes in orchestra and chamber music throughout history.

b) Cognitive development of music education:

•  What does the term musical imagination mean?
•  What is meant by tonal and harmonic sensibility?
• Outline the diagnostics and methodology  of musical imagination, tonal and harmonic sensibility.

6.
a) Music and ceremony:

• What is the function and ritual importance of religious music?
•  What role did  Gregorian chant play in sacred music?
•  Outline the historical developments and reforms in liturgical music.
• How is music perceived in current ceremonies in folk culture?

b) Cognitive development of music education:

Describe the development of the following:

• ear training and aural skills;
• musical memory;
• musical imagination.

7.
a) Music, words, film and theater:

Define/describe  the following:

• melodrama,
• important works of incidental music in past and present,
• film music.

b) Cognitive development of music education:

• Describe the terms: musical skills, classification, diagnosis and disorders of musical abilities.

8.
a) Music as drama:

For two of the following, describe how music integrates with drama and dance to create:

• Opera,
• opera for children,
• operetta,
• musicals.

b) Cognitive development of music education:

• Discuss two methodologies for teaching songs.
• What is the importance of vocal music in music education.

9.
a) Music as an image or story:

• What is program music? How has it been used over the musical ages?
• What are the basic conditions and apperception of program music?

b) Cognitive development of music education:

In terms of musical imagery, describe any two of the following:

• musical thinking,
• mental operations, creating musical concepts,
• learning music theory knowledge,
• knowledge.

10.
a) Music, freedom of expression and technical progress:

• Choose one song and improvise on it using various styles from the historical times (from agogics to aleatorics)
• How have developments such as electronic and electroacoustic recording impacted musical freedom and expression?
• How have electronic instruments in popular music impacted musical development?

b) Cognitive development of music education:

Discuss the characteristics of any two of the following:

• creativity and creative principles in music education, including methodology/ development of rhythmic and melodic creativity,
• impact of foreign music education systems on music education,
• principles of creative intonation.