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Key Facts: Canary PAU Music & Dance Exam
90 Min
Official duration of the PAU subject examination paper
ULPGC & ULL PAU Regulations
0–10
Scoring scale for PAU subject examinations in Spain
Gobierno de Canarias / COPAU
5 Blocks
Main syllabus blocks tested including Canarian musical heritage
Canary Islands 2º Bachillerato LOMLOE Curriculum
100
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Canary Islands PAU History of Music and Dance (ULPGC & ULL 2026) tests Bachillerato students on music history, dance evolution, score analysis, Spanish musical nationalism, and Canarian musical folklore.
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1In ancient Greek music theory, what concept described the belief that music possessed the moral power to influence human character, behavior, and the soul?
A.Ethos doctrine
B.Isorhythm
C.Monody
D.Cantus firmus
Explanation: The doctrine of ethos was a central concept in ancient Greek philosophical thought (articulated by Damon, Plato, and Aristotle) holding that specific musical modes, rhythms, and instruments directly affected an individual's moral character and psychological state.
2Which double-reed wind instrument was associated with Dionysian rituals, theatrical drama, and intense emotional passion in Ancient Greece?
A.Kithara
B.Aulos
C.Lyre
D.Panpipes (Syrinx)
Explanation: The aulos was a double-reed wind instrument paired with Dionysian cults, drama, and orgiastic rituals, contrasted with the kithara and lyre which were tied to Apollonian restraint and order.
3What principal form of sacred vocal music emerged in the Early Middle Ages as a monophonic, unaccompanied Latin chant used in the Roman Catholic liturgy?
A.Madrigal
B.Chanson
C.Gregorian chant
D.Polyphonic motet
Explanation: Gregorian chant is the sacred monophonic, unaccompanied Latin plainchant codified under Roman Catholic liturgy, named traditionally after Pope Gregory I.
4Gregorian chants that assign many notes to a single syllable of text (such as in an Alleluia melisma) are classified under which text-setting style?
A.Syllabic
B.Neumatic
C.Isorhythmic
D.Melismatic
Explanation: Melismatic chant text setting features elaborate passages with many notes sung on a single syllable of text, commonly heard in Alleluias and Graduals.
5Who were the aristocratic poet-musicians of southern France during the 12th and 13th centuries who composed secular monophonic songs about courtly love (fin'amor) in Old Occitan?
A.Troubadours
B.Trouvères
C.Minnesänger
D.Goliards
Explanation: Troubadours were southern French poet-composers writing in Old Occitan (Langue d'Oc) who created the courtly love lyric tradition in medieval Europe.
6What major 13th-century manuscript collection of 420 monophonic songs in Galician-Portuguese was compiled under the patronage of King Alfonso X of Castile and León?
A.Carmina Burana
B.Cantigas de Santa María
C.Codex Calixtinus
D.Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
Explanation: The Cantigas de Santa María is a major 13th-century Iberian manuscript containing 420 monophonic songs praising the Virgin Mary, sponsored by Alfonso X 'El Sabio'.
7What was the earliest form of Western polyphony, originating around the 9th century, consisting of a Gregorian melody doubled by a parallel voice at a fourth or fifth interval?
A.Fauxbourdon
B.Conductus
C.Parallel organum
D.Isorhythmic motet
Explanation: Parallel organum, described in treatises like Musica Enchiriadis (c. 900), added a voice moving in parallel fourths or fifths below a principal chant melody.
8Which Paris cathedral school of polyphony in the late 12th and early 13th centuries was led by masters Léonin and Pérotin?
A.St. Martial School
B.Venetian School
C.Franco-Flemish School
D.Notre Dame School
Explanation: The Notre Dame School of Paris produced the first major body of measured polyphony under Léonin (Magnus Liber Organi) and Pérotin (organum triplum and quadruplum).
9Which 14th-century French musical movement, championed by Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, introduced advanced rhythmic notation and duple meter alongside triple meter?
A.Ars Nova
B.Ars Antiqua
C.Prima Prattica
D.Empfindsamer Stil
Explanation: The Ars Nova ('New Art') was named after Philippe de Vitry's treatise (c. 1320), introducing mensural notation that permitted duple divisions and complex rhythms.
10Which medieval dance form, characterized by a lively, instrumental, multi-sectional structure with repeated strains (puncti), is one of the oldest recorded instrumental dance genres?
A.Pavane
B.Estampie
C.Allemande
D.Galliard
Explanation: The estampie was the principal instrumental dance genre of the 13th and 14th centuries, structured in repeating sections (puncti) with open and closed endings.
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