Section A Listening - 'unfamiliar music' 10 mark practice question and mark scheme, designed to develop students' analytical precision, and the ability to link musical elements to context, style, and purpose.
Section A Listening - 'unfamiliar music' 10 mark practice question and mark scheme, designed to develop students' analytical precision, and the ability to link musical elements to context, style, and purpose.
Suitable for students with a solid foundation of music vocabulary, and a decent amount of analytical listening experience.
Suitable for students with a solid foundation of music vocabulary, and a decent amount of analytical listening experience.
Featuring four extracts of songs by Elvis, Connie Francis, The Rolling Stones and Cream. Questions focus on the identification of musical features and devices characteristic of the genre, as well as providing opportunities to practise score reading, pitch and rhythm recognition, and melodic dictation.
Featuring instrumental works by Metheny arr. Mays, Walker, Ravel, Liszt arr. Luke. Questions focus on texture and sonority but cover all musical elements, and include opportunities to practise melodic dictation.
Suitable for the early stages of analytical listening.
Featuring Arnold 'Four Cornish Dances', Britten 'Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge', Maxwell-Davies 'Strathcyde Concerto no.6' and Tavener 'Funeral Ikos'. Questions focus on the elements, context and musical language associated with the music of these four composers.
Featuring Copland 'Billy the Kid' and 'Rodeo', Reich 'Music for Pieces of Wood' and Adams 'Harmonium'. Questions focus on the elements, context and musical language associated with the music of these composers.
Featuring Bartók 'Romanian Folk Dances for Orchestra' and the 'Concerto for Orchestra', and Kodály 'Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song' and 'Dances of Galánta'. Questions focus on the identification of the elements, characteristics of folk music, and features of 20th century orchestral writing found in the works of the two composers.
