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Music 2Musicology and Aural Skills

426

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2003H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E

E X A M I N AT I O N

General Instructions

• Reading time – 5 minutes

• Write using black or blue pen

• Score Attachments A, B, and C,and manuscript paper areprovided at the back of this paper

• Write your Centre Number andStudent Number at the top ofthis page and pages 5, 9 and 11,and on the manuscript paper

Total marks – 35

• Attempt Questions 1–4

Total marks – 35Attempt Questions 1–4

All instructions, musical examples, and pauses for reading and writing are included on therecording.

Answer the questions in the spaces provided.

MarksQuestion 1 (9 marks)

This question is based on an excerpt from Triple Duo (1983) by Elliott Carter.

Score Attachment A contains the excerpt (bars 244–272). You have ONE minute tolook at the score.

The whole excerpt will be played ONCE for familiarisation.

You now have TWO minutes to answer parts (a) and (b).

(a) What is meant by Flt. at bar 256?

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(b) How is the violin played at bar 263?

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Question 1 (continued)

Bars 244–253 will be played TWICE for you to answer part (c).

Time: First playing — 1 minute pauseSecond playing — 2 minute pause

Explain how this rhythmic figure from bar 245 of the piano part is treated in bars245–253.

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The whole excerpt will be played ONCE for you to refer to the score and answerpart (d).

Time: Playing — 4 minute pause

(d) Discuss the use of the intervals of the 5th and the 6th in this excerpt.

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MarksQuestion 2 (8 marks)

This question is based on Dawn Mantras (1999) by Ross Edwards.

(a) Part (a) is a melody dictation.

An excerpt will be played SIX times for you to notate the cor anglais part. Thefirst note of the cor anglais part has been provided. The shakuhachi part has alsobeen provided.

Time: First playing — 10 second pauseSecond playing — 30 second pauseThird playing — 1 minute pauseFourth playing — 1 minute pauseFifth playing — 2 minute pauseSixth playing — 2 minute pause


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An excerpt that follows the melody you have just heard will be played ONCE forfamiliarisation.

Score Attachment B contains the score of this excerpt.

In a box before the score of the excerpt are the didjeridu, men’s choir and percussionpatterns on which this piece is based.

The excerpt will be played TWICE for you to answer part (b).

Time: First playing — short pauseSecond playing — 5 minute pause

(b) Describe THREE ways in which Dawn Mantras depicts the idea of a mantra.

[mantra: a word, phrase or verse intoned, often repetitively]

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Question 3 (8 marks)

This question is based on the second movement of Shostakovitch’s 14th Symphony Op. 135:Malagueña (1969).

Score Attachment C contains the whole movement (bars 1–103). You have ONE minute to lookat the score.

The movement will be played ONCE for familiarisation.

The movement will be played TWICE for you to answer the question below.

Time: First playing — 1 minute pauseSecond playing — 5 minute pause

Tension is a key feature of this movement. Explain how this tension is achieved through the useof texture and structure.



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Question 4 (10 marks)

You have 20 minutes to answer Question 4.

Composers choose instruments and/or voices for musically expressive purposes.

Discuss this statement in relation to works you have studied in both the Mandatory Topic,Music of the last 25 years (Australian focus), and Additional Topic. You may also refer to theworks used in this examination paper.

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Score for Question 1

Excerpt from Triple Duo (1983) by Elliott Carter

Music 2Score Attachment A

Copyright 1983 by Hendon Music Inc. Used by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Pty Ltd. "For Educational studies only. No Public performance, using these extracts, is allowed without the explicit permission of Boosey & Hawkes Pty Ltd."

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Excerpt from Dawn Mantras (1999) by Ross Edwards

Music 2Score Attachment B

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Symphony No. 14, Op. 135, 2nd movement: Malagueña (1969) by Dmitri Shostakovitch

Music 2Score Attachment C

Copyright by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited. Reproduced by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Pty Ltd. "For Educational studies only. No Public performance, using these extracts, is allowed without the explicit permission of Boosey & Hawkes Pty Ltd."

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General Instructions

• Reading time – 2 minutes

Total marks – 5

Music 2Sight Singing

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Tonic chord

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Starting note

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• The test may be performed to the given words, or on any open vowel, or sol-fa or solfege.

• The examiner will give you the tonic chord and the starting note once after handing the test to you,and once again, immediately before you sing the piece.

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