Music IA Research Question Evaluator
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Compare High-Scoring vs. Flawed Music RQs
Below are examples of evaluated RQs from recent Music IAs. Review the strengths and weaknesses to understand the scoring criteria, and feel free to evaluate your own RQ using the form above.
What is Music?
Strengths:
The RQ is a single, clear question.
Weaknesses:
Specify the scope to bound the topic (e.g., state a time period, culture, or repertoire). Example: replace with "What is Music within the context of 20th-century Western art music?"
What is Music?
Strengths:
Clear, concise single-question format.
Weaknesses:
Specify the scope by naming a bounded repertoire or context. Example: replace with a version like "What is music within 20th-century Western art music, focusing on rhythm and timbre?"
To what extent do modal scales and heterophonic textures in performances of the Persian dastgāh Shur by Iranian tar players shape melodic ornamentation practices during the twentieth century?
Strengths:
Clear focus on a specific musical tradition and performance practice.
Weaknesses:
How does Beethoven's use of motivic development in the first movement of the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ('Moonlight') contribute to the movement's structural coherence?
Strengths:
Clear, focused scope with a specific work and movement.
Weaknesses:
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