Past paper 2019

Describe the music in the Right hand at the start of the extract - Beethoven

Ascending and descending melody

Identify the difference in metre between start and end of extract - Beethoven

Start is in 2, exposition is in 4

True or false - melody starts in 5th - Star Wars

True

True or false - melody is in octaves - Star Wars

True

True or false - melody has dotted rhythm - Star Wars

False

Identify playing technique in harp at end - Star Wars

Glissando

Identify texture when voice enters - Purcell

Polyphonic

Describe 3 features of the harmony that are characteristic of Baroque music - Purcell

Ground bass

Perfect cadences

Suspensions

Functional

Give 2 features of vocal texture at start - queen

Homophonic

Vocal harmonies

Name 2 playing techniques by solo guitar and sound made by them - queen

String bends - distorts pitch

Sliding - notes slide between pitches

Describe 2 ways texture changes towards end - queen

Homophonic at end

Guitar parts added

Identify harmonic device at end - Bach

perfect cadence

Name accompanying instrument in extract a - samba

Acoustic bass guitar

Name instrument heard in extract B but not A - samba

Acoustic guitar

Identify 2 similarities between extract a and b - samba

Minor

Syncopation

Explain how end of extract b is different to a - samba

B ends with sustained final chord

Identify two features of extract B that are jazzy - samba

Syncopated

Improvisation

Rhythm of melody - unfamiliar

C

Identify cadence and key - unfamiliar

Perfect to dominant/ f major

Describe 2 features of melody - unfamiliar

Melisma

Step wise

Texture and tonality at end of unfamiliar

Homophonic, minor