UW-Superior Music Department
Music Theory Placement Exam
Name:
This exam helps the UWS Music faculty understand how much you know about music theory. The results will
not impact your admittance to the UWS Music Department. If there are questions that you do not know, simply leave
them blank.
1. Pitch Identification: Please write the name of the note under the whole note (please note the change of
clef)
2. Key Signatures: Please label the following keys
Major
Major
3. Intervals: Label the following intervals (e.g.: A4, m6)
Minor
Minor
4. Scales: Please label the following scales (e.g.: A Major, G Melodic Minor)
5. Rhythm:
Four eight notes take up the same amount of time as one
note.
Two sixteenth notes take up the same amount of time as one
note.
Two thirty-second notes take up the same amount of time as one
One quarter note takes up the same amount of time as two
notes.
note.
notes or four
6. Rhythm Part 2: Mark with an X the measures that have rhythmic mistakes
7. Interval Identification: Major & Minor Seconds. Indicate whether the interval played is a major
second or a minor second (check one)
1. Major Second
Minor Second
2. Major Second
Minor Second
3. Major Second
Minor Second
4. Major Second
Minor Second
8. Chord Quality Identification: Major and Minor. Indicate whether the triad played is major or
minor (check one)
1. Major Triad
Minor Triad
2. Major Triad
Minor Triad
3. Major Triad
Minor Triad
4. Major Triad
Minor Triad