AP® Music Theory

Welcome to Albert's AP® Music Theory course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's AP® Music Theory course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

For testing information or details about the exam itself, visit the College Board.

Albert's AP® Music Theory multiple choice questions (located in the Practice tab) are organized in accordance with the College Board’s AP® Music Theory Course and Exam Description into the following units.

Each theme contains a range of specific topics. For example, here are some topics within Musical Terminology theme.

All questions in Albert’s AP® Music Theory course are aligned to course content & skills from the Course and Exam Description.

This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can search for any skill from the CED to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.

In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Albert’s AP® Music Theory includes several types of tags. These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as harmonic-analysis or cadence. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guidelevel.

AP® Music Theory uses one question type to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills. 

Our Help Center is available at any time! Get started and answer your questions with articles written by the Albert team.

All AP® Exams take place the first two weeks of May. You can find the AP Exam schedule here.

The format of the exam is detailed in the table below:

The AP® Music Theory poster provides a detailed overview of this year's exam.