Music GACE Prep Exam Questions with
100% Correct Answers
Students fill out a sample Large Group Performance Evaluation judge's form
while listening to a recording of a performance. - ✔✔Students will demonstrate
understanding of appropriate ensemble tone.
Students write a free-form essay after participating in a concert. - ✔✔Students
will use relevant, intelligent musical terminology to describe musical
performances.
The ensemble sings a passage of music repeatedly while students pass around a
digital recorder. - ✔✔Students will contribute effectively on an individual level
to the performance practices of a piece of music.
Students take several sight-reading tests using SmartMusic software throughout
the course of the semester. - ✔✔Students will demonstrate progress over time
in individual performance techniques.
Which TWO of the following physiological changes occur during the female
voice change? - ✔✔The larynx grows dramatically from side to side.
The vocal folds lengthen considerably.
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, Which of the following instructional strategies is best to avoid when teaching
adolescent male students who are undergoing a voice change? - ✔✔Asking
students to sing extended fortissimo passages
Which of the following is an appropriate strategy for integrating inexperienced
singers into a high school choral rehearsal? - ✔✔Introducing the melody and
root harmonies first in order to garner interest and also to help out-of-tune
singers lock in the resting tone
Which of the following is an appropriate instructional objective for teaching the
music of a non-Western culture in a middle school music class in the United
States? - ✔✔The students will recognize and be able to describe the
characteristic sounds of the music.
Which of the following scenarios is the best example of music students in an
eighth-grade general music class exhibiting intrinsic motivation? - ✔✔Students
understand the relevance of the task to achieving musical goals, enjoy the task,
and perform the task to reach the goals.
Which of the following represents the most appropriate sequence of
discrimination tasks for developing a child's sense of pitch? - ✔✔High and low
pitches, direction of melodic movement, movement by step and by skip
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100% Correct Answers
Students fill out a sample Large Group Performance Evaluation judge's form
while listening to a recording of a performance. - ✔✔Students will demonstrate
understanding of appropriate ensemble tone.
Students write a free-form essay after participating in a concert. - ✔✔Students
will use relevant, intelligent musical terminology to describe musical
performances.
The ensemble sings a passage of music repeatedly while students pass around a
digital recorder. - ✔✔Students will contribute effectively on an individual level
to the performance practices of a piece of music.
Students take several sight-reading tests using SmartMusic software throughout
the course of the semester. - ✔✔Students will demonstrate progress over time
in individual performance techniques.
Which TWO of the following physiological changes occur during the female
voice change? - ✔✔The larynx grows dramatically from side to side.
The vocal folds lengthen considerably.
Page 1 of 9
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, Which of the following instructional strategies is best to avoid when teaching
adolescent male students who are undergoing a voice change? - ✔✔Asking
students to sing extended fortissimo passages
Which of the following is an appropriate strategy for integrating inexperienced
singers into a high school choral rehearsal? - ✔✔Introducing the melody and
root harmonies first in order to garner interest and also to help out-of-tune
singers lock in the resting tone
Which of the following is an appropriate instructional objective for teaching the
music of a non-Western culture in a middle school music class in the United
States? - ✔✔The students will recognize and be able to describe the
characteristic sounds of the music.
Which of the following scenarios is the best example of music students in an
eighth-grade general music class exhibiting intrinsic motivation? - ✔✔Students
understand the relevance of the task to achieving musical goals, enjoy the task,
and perform the task to reach the goals.
Which of the following represents the most appropriate sequence of
discrimination tasks for developing a child's sense of pitch? - ✔✔High and low
pitches, direction of melodic movement, movement by step and by skip
Page 2 of 9
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