Titles listed in our catalog without bracketed numbers are assumed to use "Standard Instrumentation." The following is considered to be Standard Instrumentation: There is no separate number for Bass Trombone, but it can generally be assumed that if there are multiple Trombone parts, the lowest part can/should be performed on Bass Trombone. Thus, the Copland Fanfare shown above is for 3 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 3 Trombones, no Euphonium, 1 Tuba and Tympani.
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Any additional instruments (Tympani in this example) are indicated by a "w/" (meaning "with") or by using a plus sign.
The first number stands for Trumpet, the second for Horn, the third for Trombone, the fourth (separated from the first three by a dot) for Euphonium and the fifth for Tuba. The bracketed numbers tell you how many of each instrument are in the ensemble. Quintet - Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon & Horn - įollowing many of the titles in our Brass Ensemble catalog, you will see a set of five numbers enclosed in square brackets, as in this example:Ĭopland Fanfare for the Common Man Item: 02158.Quartet - Flute, Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon - or.Titles with no bracketed numbers are assumed to use "Standard Instrumentation." The following is considered to be Standard Instrumentation: Note the "2+1" portion means "2 oboes plus english horn" Thus a double reed quartet of 2 oboes, english horn and bassoon will look like this: Whenever this occurs, we will separate the first four digits with commas for clarity. These are linked to their respective principal instruments with either a "d" if the same player doubles the instrument, or a "+" if an extra player is required. Sometimes there are instruments in the ensemble other than those shown above. This woodwind quartet is for 1 Flute, no Oboe, 1 Clarinet, 1 Bassoon, 1 Horn and Piano. Any additional instruments (Piano in this example) are indicated by "w/" (meaning "with") or by using a plus sign. The first number stands for Flute, the second for Oboe, the third for Clarinet, the fourth for Bassoon, and the fifth (separated from the woodwinds by a dash) is for Horn. The bracketed numbers tell you the precise instrumentation of the ensemble. Rimsky-Korsakov Quintet in Bb Item: 26746 *"AP" is a trademark of the College Board, which did not participate in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.Following many of the titles in our Wind Ensemble catalog, you will see a set of numbers enclosed in square brackets, as in this example: The AP Prep Course is provided in the activity menu of every current Practica Musica edition: Standard, Site, and Student. as in this example from question 5 in section II. The program is even able to mark up part-writing efforts by the students, taking off for parallels, etc. Musica provides activities to practice the material found in each question, including both single melody dictation and harmonic dictation. In the second part of the theory exam the student encounters dictation and composition activities such as realization of figured bass or Roman numeral harmony. The rest of questions 1-74 in sections A and B are similarly covered with a mix of practice and sample question activities. The student can then move on to examples that imitate the manner in which questions 14-17 appear in the exam: Rhythm errors in randomly generated melodies: Questions 14-17 concern detection of pitch or rhythm errors, so the associated activities begin with general practice in detecting pitch or Melodic pitch patterns and presents them in the same way they appear in question A.1 of the exam:
For example, Activity A.01 randomly creates scale variations on Music theory the Exploring Theory course included in Practica Musica would be good preparation.Īctivities included in the AP Prep Course are of two types: activities that mimick the presentation of specific questions found in the released exam,Īnd those that provide background practice in topics covered by those questions. This course requires that one already has familiarity with basic Each activityįollows the numbering of the questions in the 2003 released exam, and provides learning activities that approximately match the topicsĪnd form of the questions. The AP Prep Course is designed as practice for the AP Music Theory exam.