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GCSE Listening and Appraising - practice question 30
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Edexcel A level Component 3 Appraising: Section B - AOS 2 Instrumental Music: Question 5 and wider listening (Berlioz connection)
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Exam style practice question 5, with embedded video, guidance on preparation, writing style, essay structure, and a playlist made up of pertinent 'wider listening' reference materials
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GCSE Listening and Appraising - practice question 29
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Four-part harmony exercise 22
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The use of unaccented passing notes (UPN), accented passing notes (APN), auxiliary notes (AUX), suspensions (9-8, 7-6, 4-3) and harmony notes, in generating quaver movement, creating beautiful bass lines, and dissonance.
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Four-part harmony exercise 21 and test 3
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Four examples of Bach's use of parallel 3rds, 6ths and 10ths, followed by test 3.
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Four-part harmony exercise 20
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Eight examples of how Bach harmonises the material leading up to an imperfect cadence, followed by a two phrase exercise to try out a few patterns.
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GCSE Listening And Appraising - Elements test 1
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40 minute test /50, suitable for all exam specifications comprising vocabulary questions (10 marks), three exam-style questions (40 marks), and a follow up review task to identify next steps. Questions on texture, rhythmic devices, phrasing, cadences, metre, pulse, timbre, tonality, texture, melodic recognition, melodic dictation, melodic description, comparison question.
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Four-part harmony exercise 19
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Great progressions built from 2 or 3 chords. These exercises are to get students used to the idea that they’re going to find themselves with knotty problems that need unravelling, re-working and rethinking. It’s also to get them recognising that each phrase connects with the one before and after it. No phrase is an island. Horizontal thinking is just as important as vertical thinking. There's a lot to consider, even when you’re just using primary triads.
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Four-part harmony exercise 18
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Rooty progressions and same chord inversions. Three progressions that explore root chord progressions, adjacent root position chords and adjacent root and first inversions of the same chord.
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Four-part harmony exercise 17
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Great double acts - V7d - Ib and friends. Because root V7 - root I is such a weighty partnership, it’s not a combination you want students using all over the place. The two chords have really strong bonds in certain inversion combinations too, and are endlessly useful for lightening mid-chorale cadences and for anacruses.