Exam Questions
Below are all the questions taht have been asked since 1999. note; some have been repeated many times
Where in the work? What section? Name the tune?
Insert the missing time signatures? Identify the time signature?
Instrumental Techniques; Pizzicato, accented, legato? Describe how the piano is being played? Name and describe an instrumental technique heard elsewhere? Pizzicato, flautando, senza vibrato
Compositional techniques - Inversion, augmentation, retrograde; Identify and describe the compositional technique? Describe his use of canon?
Identify and describe the texture? Describe the change of texture? Full excerpt? Explain with reference to the excerpt?
Describe the music which immediately follows
Identify 3 instruments
Describe his use of Irish melodies?
Terms - Canon, harmonics, etc.
Contrast 2 sections of the excerpt? 2nd time an octave lower, higher or same pitch?
Personal response?
Fill in the missing notes (only once from section A 2006)
Identify and escribe two other features of 20th century music heard in the excerpt?
Insert the missing time signatures? Identify the time signature?
Instrumental Techniques; Pizzicato, accented, legato? Describe how the piano is being played? Name and describe an instrumental technique heard elsewhere? Pizzicato, flautando, senza vibrato
Compositional techniques - Inversion, augmentation, retrograde; Identify and describe the compositional technique? Describe his use of canon?
Identify and describe the texture? Describe the change of texture? Full excerpt? Explain with reference to the excerpt?
Describe the music which immediately follows
Identify 3 instruments
Describe his use of Irish melodies?
Terms - Canon, harmonics, etc.
Contrast 2 sections of the excerpt? 2nd time an octave lower, higher or same pitch?
Personal response?
Fill in the missing notes (only once from section A 2006)
Identify and escribe two other features of 20th century music heard in the excerpt?