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Key Facts: Lower Saxony Zentralabitur Music Exam

3 inhaltliche Schwerpunkte

2026 Musik has 3 mandatory content areas taught in a fixed order

Nds. Kultusministerium, Abitur 2026 – Hinweise für das Fach Musik

04.05.2026

Fixed statewide written exam date for Musik in the 2026 Zentralabitur

MK Niedersachsen Neubekanntmachung der Abiturtermine 2026

Optional fachpraktisch

Candidates may separately register for an instrumental/vocal fachpraktische Prüfung

§9 AVO-GOBAK / Nr. 9.3.1 EB-AVO-GOBAK

300 / 900 points

Minimum Gesamtqualifikation to pass the Abitur (Block I ≥200/600, Block II ≥100/300)

Nds. Kultusministerium, Die gymnasiale Oberstufe und die Abiturprüfung

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Nds. Kultusministerium, Abitur 2026 – Hinweise für das Fach Musik

Free 100-question English MCQ study bank for Lower Saxony Zentralabitur Musik. Official exam: listening/score-analysis and interpretation tasks (EPA Musik 2005) over 2026's three Schwerpunkte — Bach-era polyphony, Reich/Ligeti/Pärt minimalism, and Mahler's songs. Written window 10.04.–11.05.2026 (Musik: 04.05.2026). Not an official performance or listening-format simulation; no fee for regular school candidates.

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1The 2026 Schwerpunkt 'Polyphonie in der Musik seit J. S. Bach' primarily develops students' skill in:
A.Analyzing contrapuntal techniques and understanding how multiple independent melodic lines interact
B.Memorizing the biographies of Baroque monarchs
C.Performing only solo unaccompanied melodies with no counterpoint
D.Studying exclusively electronic dance music production
Explanation: This Schwerpunkt centers on polyphonic (contrapuntal) music, in which multiple independent melodic lines are combined, and asks students to analyze compositional technique from Bach onward.
2Which two-part keyboard pieces by J. S. Bach are specified as verbindlich for the 2026 Schwerpunkt on polyphony?
A.The two-voice Inventions No. 6 in E major (BWV 777) and No. 14 in B-flat major (BWV 785)
B.The complete Brandenburg Concertos
C.The St. Matthew Passion
D.The Goldberg Variations in their entirety
Explanation: The official 2026 Hinweise specify Bach's two-voice Inventions No. 6 (E major, BWV 777) and No. 14 (B-flat major, BWV 785) as required works illustrating basic two-part counterpoint.
3Which fugue from Bach's 'Wohltemperiertes Klavier II' (Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II) is specified for 2026?
A.Fugue No. 2 in C minor, BWV 871
B.Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846
C.A fugue composed by Handel instead of Bach
D.No fugue from this collection is assigned
Explanation: The 2026 Hinweise specify Fugue No. 2 in C minor, BWV 871, from Book II of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, as required material for analyzing fugal structure.
4A 'fugue' is a compositional form defined by which core structural feature?
A.A single theme (subject) is introduced and then imitated successively in different voices, developed through the piece
B.A single melody performed without any harmonic accompaniment whatsoever
C.A fixed twelve-bar chord progression used in blues music
D.A strict verse-chorus song structure
Explanation: A fugue is built on a principal theme (the subject) introduced in one voice and then imitated in successive voices, with contrapuntal development throughout — the defining structural feature analyzed in this Schwerpunkt.
5Which specific movement of a Mozart string quartet is assigned to the 2026 polyphony Schwerpunkt?
A.The 4th movement of the String Quartet in G major, KV 387
B.The Symphony No. 40 in G minor
C.The opera 'The Magic Flute' in its entirety
D.The Requiem Mass
Explanation: The 4th movement of Mozart's String Quartet in G major, KV 387, is specified for 2026 as an example of Classical-era engagement with contrapuntal (fugal) technique.
6Which Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy work is specified for the 2026 polyphony Schwerpunkt?
A.The first movement of String Symphony No. 12 in G minor
B.The 'Wedding March' from A Midsummer Night's Dream
C.The Violin Concerto in E minor
D.The 'Songs Without Words' piano collection in its entirety
Explanation: The 2026 Hinweise specify the first movement of Mendelssohn's String Symphony No. 12 in G minor as required material, extending the polyphony theme into the early Romantic era.
7Which two composers' works are added specifically for erhöhtes Anforderungsniveau (eA) in the polyphony Schwerpunkt?
A.Dmitri Shostakovich and Paul Hindemith
B.Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert
C.The Beatles and Bob Dylan
D.Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel
Explanation: For eA, the 2026 Hinweise add Shostakovich's Fugue No. 4 (from op. 87) and the first movement of Hindemith's Symphony 'Mathis der Maler,' extending the polyphony theme into 20th-century music.
8Shostakovich's Fugue No. 4 in E minor comes from which of his major collections?
A.24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87
B.A collection of film scores
C.A set of unaccompanied violin sonatas
D.An opera about Baroque composers
Explanation: Shostakovich's op. 87 is his cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues, modeled on Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, from which the assigned Fugue No. 4 is drawn.
9Which specific competency does the 2026 Hinweise list as required alongside Schwerpunkt 1's content knowledge — the ability to analyze a fugue's structure and:
A.Fix its structure in graphic form and explain it
B.Translate it into a foreign language
C.Calculate its exact market value
D.Ignore all thematic-motivic elements entirely
Explanation: The Hinweise specifically require the ability to analyze a fugue and represent its structure graphically while explaining that structure — a combined analytical and visual-representational skill.
10The 2026 Hinweise for Schwerpunkt 1 mention a possible practical component involving:
A.Simple two-voice compositional exercises in polyphonic style using given material
B.Conducting a full symphony orchestra live
C.Building a physical musical instrument from raw materials
D.Writing a complete opera libretto
Explanation: The Hinweise describe a possible Gestaltungsaufgabe requiring simple two-voice compositional exercises within the polyphonic style, using given musical material and following specified rules.

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