AEPA Music (NT504) case studies
AEPA Music (NT504) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The AEPA Music examination, test code NT504, is one of the Subject Knowledge tests in the Arizona Educator Proficiency Assessments program. It is intended for candidates who need to demonstrate subject-matter knowledge in music as part of Arizona educator certification. The AEPA Music (NT504) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,528 words.
1The Modulation the Rubric Didn't Anticipate
Okafor's 11th-grade composition class has a summative task with a published rubric: 24 measures, functional tonal harmony in a major key, two phrases with a clear cadence, and a written analysis of the harmonic choices. One student, Devin, submits a 26-measure piece in D major that, at measure 13, moves to B minor through a pivot on F-sharp and stays there for eight measures before returning to D.
717 words, about 4 min2The Program Note That Says “First”
The Riverside Civic Orchestra has asked you, its newly hired program annotator, to write notes for a November concert. The music director's draft billing calls one work “the first orchestral piece by a Black American composer ever performed by a major American orchestra” and advertises the concert as the “world premiere of a rediscovered score.” You have three sources: a 1974 dissertation, the orchestra's own 2008 website blurb, and a 2019 university-press monograph.
694 words, about 3 min3Six Tenors and One High G
A high school concert choir of 42 meets twice weekly for 45 minutes; the winter concert is five weeks out. The roster: 14 sopranos, 11 altos, 11 basses, and 6 tenors.
758 words, about 4 min4The Soprano with the Doctor's Note
Six weeks before the winter concert, Priya, the choir's strongest soprano, is diagnosed with a vocal fold nodule. Her otolaryngologist's note states: no singing above mezzo-forte for eight weeks, and avoid high tessitura.
687 words, about 3 min5The Transfer Student and the Chair Test
Elena transfers in mid-October to a high school band program with a fixed seating audition: 12 major scales, a prepared etude, and sight-reading, scored on a 30-point rubric (12 points scales, 12 etude, 6 sight-reading). Her previous school had no marching band and taught scales by rote; she has played horn for five years.
672 words, about 3 min