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Write your NAME, SCHOOL and TEACHER asrequired in the box above.Read the instructions about the exam, overleaf.

Pre-Junior Cycle Examination 2021

STUDENTSCHOOL

TEACHER

Music

Common Level

1 hour 30 minutes

280 marks

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

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Question 1

(a) Four excerpts, played twice.

(i) Match each excerpt to one of the descriptions here. Use each description once only.

Descriptions: A. A volcano eruptsB. Trapped insectsC. A broken music boxD. A royal wedding

(ii) Give a reason for your choice, each time.

Excerpt 1.

Description: A. ¨ B. ¨ C. ¨ D. ¨

Reason:

Excerpt 2.

Description: A. ¨ B. ¨ C. ¨ D. ¨

Reason:

Excerpt 3.

Description: A. ¨ B. ¨ C. ¨ D. ¨

Reason:

Excerpt 4.

Description: A. ¨ B. ¨ C. ¨ D. ¨

Reason:

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(b) Excerpt 5 – An excerpt from Water Makes Metal go Rusty played once.

This is an example of musique concrète.

• Read the following article and answer the questions that follow.

Reel-to-reel recorder

Musique Concrète It doesn't surprise me that music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century. Many musicians have started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

Pierre Schaeffer – translated from French 1948

Composers usually begin with an abstract idea. The notes they write down only become ‘concrete’ when they are played and can be heard. In the 1940s, Pierre Schaeffer decided to do the opposite. He began with recordings of natural and mechanical sounds which he slowed down, looped and re-arranged, using reel-to-reel tape recorders. He focused on the rhythms, timbres and textures heard in found sounds. Schaeffer invented the term musique concrète. The effects he produced have influenced present-day studio techniques.

(i) What did Schaeffer mean when he used the term musique concrète?

Answer:

(ii) Name one example of each type of the following found sounds below.

Natural:

Mechanical:

(c) Excerpt 5, played once more.

(iii) Describe how the title of this piece suits the excerpt.

Answer:

(iv) Identify one musical element you can hear in the excerpt.

Answer:

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Question 2

The excerpts in this question are from different arrangements of Battle Hymn of the Republic

Excerpt 1, played three times.

(a) Listen to the music in this excerpt and decide the order of ‘events’ that you hear in thedescriptions. Put 1 in the box beside the description to indicate the first event, 2 for thesecond event, 3 for the third event and so on. The final event has been written in for you.

5 è A solo female singer.

è A choir with drums in the background.

è A crescendo drum roll, ending with a crash on cymbals.

è Brass instruments with some percussion in the background.

è A loud brass fanfare followed by soft echo-like repeats.

Excerpt 2, played three times. The lyrics are printed below.

(b) Listen to the excerpt and answer the questions below.

Line 1 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord

Line 2 He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

Line 3 He has loosed the faithful lightning of his terrible swift sword

Line 4 His truth is marching on.

(i) Line 1 has a circle. Draw a circle beside any other line that has the same melody as line 1.

(ii) Draw a different shape beside the remaining line(s) to illustrate the structure of the verse.

(iii) These shapes give the verse the form:ABAC AABA ABAB

¨ ¨ ¨ (iv) This form is known as:

Unitary Binary Ternary

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Excerpt 3 – Another excerpt from Battle Hymn of the Republic played three times.

(c) Listen to the excerpt and answer the following questions.

(i) Count the beats in the bars and insert the correct time signature on the stave at A.

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Excerpt 3, played twice more.

(ii) What are the letter-names of the three notes at B?

Note 1: ____________ Note 2: ____________ Note 3: ____________

(iii) These notes form the triad of:

B minor B major Bb major

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(iv) How many beats (or fractions of a beat) does each note at C get?

Note 1: _________________________ Note 2: _________________________

(v) At D add stems and beams to the notes where appropriate to finish the rhythm.

(d) Excerpt 4 – An excerpt from a different version of the song, played twice.

• Identify two differences between Excerpt 4 and Excerpt 3. Refer to both, each time.

Example: Excerpt 3 is sung by a man, but Excerpt 4 is sung by a woman.

1st difference:

2nd difference:

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Question 3

An excerpt, played four times.

(a) Bar 4: Fill in the three missing melody notes using the given rhythm.

(b) Bar 9-12: Compose your own melody in the key of F major to the given rhythm, to complete the tune. End on the keynote / doh.

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Question 4

(a) Two excerpts by Dvorak. Answer the questions below.

Excerpt 1, played three times

(i) Which one of the graphics below represents the shape of the first eight melody notes?

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(ii) What is the texture of this short excerpt?

Monophonic Homophonic Polyphonic

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(iii) Give a reason for your answer

Reason:

Excerpt 2, played three times

(i) Which instruments are playing the main theme here?

Answer:

(ii) To which orchestral family do they belong?

Answer:

(iii) What are the other instruments in the orchestra doing in this excerpt? Tick one box.

¨ Long, held-on notes.

¨ A loud chord on the 1st beats and some on the 3rd beats.

¨ Four loud chords in every single bar.SAM

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(b) Excerpt 3 – An excerpt from Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, played three times

(i) What type of voice has the singer?

Soprano Alto Tenor

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(ii) What is the tonality of the music?

Major Minor

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(iii) Give at least two reasons why this excerpt would suit a film about mermaids.

Reasons:

(c) Excerpt 4 – An excerpt from Splanky by Count Basie, played three times.

(i) What is the pulse of the music?

3 4

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(ii) What string instrument is playing a quiet, but constantly moving accompaniment?

Answer:

(iii) What instrumental technique is the accompanying string instrument playing?

Answer:

(iv) What body percussion can you hear, as well?

Answer:

(v) What genre is this music?

Country Chamber Jazz

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(d) Composing Task

There is no music on the recording for this question.

You saw this picture in a book so you decided to compose a piece of music called Starry Night.

Using the table below:

(i) Name two different instruments (or sound sources) you wish to use in yourcomposition to reflect the starry night

(ii) Design a graphic notation symbol for each instrument to reflect the sound you wish tomake.

(iii) In the case of each symbol, give clear instructions to the performer as to how to makethe sound and say what your sound represents.

• A sample is given below to guide you.

(i) Instrument (ii) Graphic Notation Symbol (iii) Performance Instruction

Cabasa

Hold the cabasa in the palm of one hand. Your fingers hold the beads while the other hand turns the handle to get a scraping sound. Play short, random sounds to create the idea of sudden movements made by animals and insects in the grass and trees.

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Question 5

(a) Two excerpts, each played three times

• Each of the numbered boxes represents one bar of the music, which is in 3/4 time.

• Using the grid below, mark a üin any bar where you hear a chord change.

• Two bars of the pulse are heard on the metronome before the start of each excerpt.

Excerpt 1, bars 1-8.

• Two chords (bar 1 and bar 7) are already filled in.

(i) There are two other chord changes in this progression. Tick the bars where they occur.

Bar No. (Pulse) (Pulse) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Chord Change /// /// ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü

Excerpt 2, bars 9-16.

• The first chord (bar 9) is filled in.

(ii) There are two remaining chord changes in this progression. Tick the bars where they occur.

Bar No. (Pulse) (Pulse) 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Chord Change /// /// ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü

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(b) Composing task

A friend of yours, who does not read music, wants his own unique ringtone for his new phone. You have copied down what he hummed and you now need to add backing chords. You will hear the tune once with an immediate repeat.

Excerpt 3, once.

(i) Insert suitable chords in the boxes provided. The final chord has been inserted for you.

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Notes of

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D E F# G A B C

B C D E F# G A

G A B C D E F# Chord symbol

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I ii iii IV V vi viio

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(ii) To finish the ringtone, you need to give the following information:

• Name a suitable melody instrument for the tune.• Name a suitable chordal instrument.• Suggest a suitable tempo.• Suggest suitable dynamics.• Compose a one-bar rhythmic ostinato for the ringtone, in the space provided below.

Melody instrument:

Chordal instrument:

Tempo:

Dynamics:

Rhythmic ostinato:

(iii) Songs have lyrics and they help us to understand the composer’s message.

• Choose a piece of instrumental music you have studied and describe two ways inwhich the composer depicts characters and /or moods without using words.

Title:

Composer:

Description 1:

Description 2: SAM

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Question 6

Excerpts from one choral piece and one instrumental piece, each played twice.

• Answer the following questions.

(a) Excerpt 1

(i) This choral piece depicts people gossiping. Describe how the composer achieves thiseffect. Make two points.

Point 1:

Point 2:

(ii) What farm animal sound do you hear the singers make with their voices?

Answer:

(b) Excerpt 2

(i) Identify the instrument.

Answer:

(ii) Write down two features of the instrumental music that you hear.

Feature 1:

Feature 2:

(iii) For what occasion would you say that this music would be suitable? Give a reason.

Occasion:

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• You have seven minutes to answer (c) and (d).• There is no music on the recording for these questions.

(c) Your Music class is having a debate on the topic of ‘Streaming versus Downloading’ music.

• Which is better from a performer’s point of view?• Which is better from a listener’s point of view?• Write out your arguments below.

Streaming v Downloading music from a performer’s point of view:

Streaming v Downloading music from a listener’s point of view:

(d) Write out a playlist of three pieces by Irish composers and performers.

• Make sure there is at least one instrumental piece in this playlist.• Make sure that there is at least one different genre.• Complete the form below.

Title of Piece 1:

Composer / Performer: Genre:

Musical reason for including it:

Title of Piece 2:

Composer / Performer: Genre:

Musical reason for including it:

Title of Piece 3:

Composer / Performer: Genre:

Musical reason for including it:

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