Music – Practical – Form 4 (4 th Year) Secondary – 2015 Page 1 of 12 DIRECTORATE FOR QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN EDUCATION Department of Curriculum Management Educational Assessment Unit Annual Examinations for Secondary Schools 2015 FORM 4 (4 th Year) MUSIC (OPTION): PRACTICAL TIME: 1h 30min The following paper is for the teacher’s use only Apart from the piano, all three pieces of the other instruments should be accompanied on the piano by the music teacher. Teachers who are not pianists should inform the department so that an accompanist is provided. ___________________________________________________________________________ Marks: Exercise 1: 15 marks for each piece: Total 45 marks Exercise 2: Scales, arpeggios and broken chords: 20 marks All scales, arpeggios and broken chords should be played from memory, ascending and descending according to the specified range. ___________________________________________________________________________ Piano Choose any three pieces from the following. (15 marks each) (Total 45 marks) Nichelmann: Allegro for Clavier from The Age of J.S.Bach. Intermediate Piano Book (Peters) Benda: Sonatina in G: Un poco allegretto from The Classical Period (Intermediate Piano Book) (Peters) Mozart: Rondo in F from The Best of Grade 4 Piano (Faber) Beethoven: 1st movement from Sonatina in F major (Peters) Kabalevsky: Dance from Four Rondos, Op. 60 (Sikorski–Boosey & Hawkes) C. Vine: Semplice from Red Blues (Faber) or available in Keynotes, Grades 4–5 (Faber) V. Capers: Billie’s Song: No. 7 from Portraits in Jazz (OUP)
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Music – Practical – Form 4 (4th Year) Secondary – 2015 Page 1 of 12
DIRECTORATE FOR QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN EDUCATION Department of Curriculum Management Educational Assessment Unit
Annual Examinations for Secondary Schools 2015
FORM 4 (4th Year) MUSIC (OPTION): PRACTICAL TIME: 1h 30min
The following paper is for the teacher’s use only
Apart from the piano, all three pieces of the other instruments should be accompanied on the piano by the music teacher. Teachers who are not pianists should inform the department so that an accompanist is provided.
Marks:Exercise 1: 15 marks for each piece: Total 45 marksExercise 2: Scales, arpeggios and broken chords: 20 marks
All scales, arpeggios and broken chords should be played from memory, ascending and descending according to the specified range.___________________________________________________________________________
Piano
Choose any three pieces from the following. (15 marks each) (Total 45 marks)
Nichelmann: Allegro for Clavier from The Age of J.S.Bach. Intermediate Piano Book
(Peters)
Benda: Sonatina in G: Un poco allegretto from The Classical Period (Intermediate Piano
Book) (Peters)
Mozart: Rondo in F from The Best of Grade 4 Piano (Faber)
Beethoven: 1st movement from Sonatina in F major (Peters)
Kabalevsky: Dance from Four Rondos, Op. 60 (Sikorski–Boosey & Hawkes)
C. Vine: Semplice from Red Blues (Faber) or available in Keynotes, Grades 4–5 (Faber)
V. Capers: Billie’s Song: No. 7 from Portraits in Jazz (OUP)
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Scales and Arpeggios (Total 20 marks)
Scales (recommended speed crotchet = 100; p and f; similar motion) hands together and separately (2 octaves)
Scales hands together (2 octaves)
B, Ab, major C# harmonic minor, F melodic minor
Contrary - motion scales (2 octaves)
Eb major D harmonic minor
Chromatic scale hands together (2 octaves)
starting on F#
Arpeggios (recommended speed crotchet = 80) hands together and separately (2 octaves)
B, Ab major (hands together) F minor (separate hands)
Choose any three pieces from the following. (15 marks each) (Total 45 marks)
Corelli: Allemanda: 2nd movt from Sonata in F, Op. 5 No. 10. from Corelli 12 Sonatas, Op.
5, Vol. 2 (Schott ED 4381)
Kabalevsky: Scherzo, arr. Sorokin. No. 18 from Kabalevsky Album Pieces (Peters EP 4783)
Wedgwood: Falling from After Hours – Violin (Faber)
Telemann: Sonata No. 4 in G major; 4th movt, Allegro from Sechs Sonaten (Schott)
Kreisler: Sicilienne: from Sicilienne and Rigaudon (in the style of Francoeur) (published
separately: Schott BSS 29024 ) or Fritz Kreisler Repertoire (Vol. 1) (Schott ED 8658)
Grieg: Solveig’s Song from Concert Repertoire for Violin (Faber)
Tchaikovsky: Serenade from Concert Repertoire for Violin (Faber)
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Scales and Arpeggios (Total 20 marks)
Scales (recommended speed crotchet = 66; separate bows and slurred -2 beats to a bow; even notes or long tonic, at candidate’s choice; 2 octaves)
Ab, E major; B harmonic minor, C melodic minor Arpeggios (recommended speed crotchet = 66; separate bows and slurred - 3 notes to a bow; even notes; 2 octaves) Ab, E majors (separate bows) B, C minors (slurred)
Dominant Sevenths (resolving on tonic, 1 octave, separate bows, even notes)
In the keys of C (Starting on open string G)
Chromatic scales (separate bows and slurred - 4 notes to a bow; even notes; 1 octave)
Choose any three pieces from the following. (15 marks each) (Total 45 marks)
Purcell: Fairest Isle from Going Solo Trumpet (Faber)Rae: Study No. 44 or No. 48: from Jazz Trumpet Studies (Faber)Tchaikovsky: Mélodie antique française (Old French Song). No. 18 from First Book of Trumpet Solos, arr. Wallace and Miller (Faber) Mozart: Canzona, No. 4 from First Repertoire Pieces for Trumpet (arr. Wastall) (Boosey & Hawkes)Bennett: Twilight in Paris from Fingerprints – Trumpet (Faber) Bernstein: America or Maria (from West Side Story) from Amazing Solos for Trumpet (Boosey)Prokofiev: Troika from Lieutenant Kijé from Amazing Solos for Trumpet (Boosey)
Scales and Arpeggios (Total 20 marks) (A breath may be taken at the top of the scale/arpeggio).
Scales (recommended speed - crotchet = 66; p and f; to be played both slurred and tongued)
F major (1 octave) Bb major (a twelfth) F harmonic minor and D melodic minor (1 octave)
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Arpeggios (recommended speed - crotchet = 66; p and f; to be played both slurred and tongued) (1 octave) F major Bb major (a twelfth) F and D minors
Choose any three pieces from the following. (15 marks each) (Total 45 marks)
Adams: Fred’s Frolic. No. 29 from 50 Graded Studies for Recorder (Faber)
Norton: Catwalk: No. 13 from Microjazz for Recorder (Descant) (Boosey & Hawkes)
Smith: Fred ’n’ Ginger or Ragtime Razzle: No. 2 or No. 3 from Jazzy Recorder 1
(Universal UE 18828)
Purcell: Hornpipe (from The Married Beau) and Hornpipe (from The Fairy Queen).
Nos 1 and 8 from Purcell A Second Set of Theatre Tunes for Descant Recorder, arr. Beechey
(Schott ED 12294)
Bonsor: Reverie from Jazzy Recorder II (Universal UE 19364)
Babell: Concerto in D minor op.3 no.3, 3rd movt: Adagio (Universal UE 17122)
Wilson: Hey Joe – Let’s Meet from Creative Variations for Recorder Vol.1 (Camden)
Scales and Arpeggios (Total 20 marks) (A breath may be taken at the top of the scale/arpeggio).
Scales (to be played both slurred and tongued)
Bb major (1 octave) F major (1 octave and down to the dominant) D harmonic minor, E melodic minor (a twelfth; harmonic and melodic)
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Chromatic Scales starting on G (1 octave)
Arpeggios (recommended speed crotchet = 66; common chords of the following keys) Bb major (1 octave) F (1 octave and down to the dominant) D, E minors (a twelfth)
Choose any three pieces from the following. (15 marks each) (Total 45 marks)
Benson & Fisher: Your Feet’s Too Big from Vivaldi to Fats Waller for Tuba (Brass Wind
2112TC/BC)
Shearing: Lullaby of Birdland from Big Chillers for Tuba (Brass Wind 1151TC/BC)
Vivaldi: Largo from Winter from Vivaldi to Fats Waller for Tuba (Brass Wind
2112TC/BC)
Blakeson: Big Band Swing, no. 33 or Latin Lady, no. 32 from Smooth Groove for Tuba
(Brass Wind 1141TBTC or 1153TBBC)
Johnson: Ragtime Tuba: No. 6 from The Tuneful Tuba (Brass Wind)
Gregson: Folk Song from Gregson and Ridgeon Nine Miniatures for Eb Bass/Tuba (Brass
Wind)
Goddard: Daydreams: No. 4 from Party Pieces (Spartan Press)
Scales and Arpeggios (Total 20 marks)
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(A breath may be taken at the top of the scale/arpeggio).
Scales (recommended speed - crotchet = 66; p and f; to be played both slurred and tongued)
F#, Ab major (a twelfth) Eb harmonic minor (1 octave) G melodic minor (a twelfth)
Arpeggios (recommended speed - crotchet = 66; p and f; to be played both slurred and tongued) F# , Ab major (a twelfth) Eb minor (1 octave; harmonic and melodic)
Sight-reading tests should be set slightly lower in level than the repertoire list in Exercise 1 of the practical exam. Students should be allowed one minute to study the test before they attempt it. During this time, they may practice the given piece. The examiner/s will only take account of the actual performance of the test.
Exercise 4: Aural Awareness (13 marks)
An eight bar melody with simple accompaniment in 4/4 or 6/8 time will be played.
Candidates are asked to
Beat/conduct time, with a clear beat shape (conducting pattern)
State the time signature. The first 4 bars of the melody will be played again.
Candidates are to sing/hum or play the tune. Two notes from the melody will be played from low to high. Candidates are
to state the interval as major/minor 2nd, major/minor 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major/minor 6th.
The extract will be played again.
Candidates are to identify the cadence at the end as being perfect or
imperfect.
Candidates will be asked to comment on the articulation and dynamics of the extract.
Exercise 5: Public Performance (12 marks)
One or two public performances on the student’s own instrument
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DIRECTORATE FOR QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN EDUCATION Department of Curriculum Management Educational Assessment Unit
Annual Examinations for Secondary Schools 2015
FORM 4 (4th Year) MUSIC OPTION: THEORY TIME: 1h 30min
5a. Write the following triads as indicated below.
Tonic triad of A major Subdominant triad of Dominant triad of in root position with key B major in first inversion C sharp minor in signature without key signature second inversion
with key signature
10 marks
3 marks
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5b. Name the following triads in F major. Identify the chord (I, IV, V) and use symbols to describe whether the triad is in root position, 1st or 2nd inversion. a. b. c. d. e.
a. _______________________________
b. _______________________________
c. _______________________________
d. _______________________________
e. _______________________________
6. Write the following cadences in root position in SATB.
Perfect cadence in G minor Plagal cadence in D flat major
without key-signature with key-signature
5 marks
10 marks
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7. Write a melody to the following bass line. You are to include
some unaccented passing notes.
8. Transpose the following tune up a perfect 5th so that it will sound at concert pitch when played by a French horn.
10 marks
10 marks
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9. Look at the following excerpt and then answer the following questions about it.
bar 1 bar 2 bar 3 bar 4
9a. Name the key of the music _____________________ (1 mark)
9b. Name the chords (I, IV, V, V7) numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on top of the (5 marks) stave.