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AS Level MusicH143/03 Listening and appraising
Tuesday 22 May 2018 – MorningTime allowed: 2 hours
You must have:• CD of listening extracts• Insert (inserted)• Playback facilities with headphones for listening to
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You may use:• A black pen• A pencil for all rough working
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SECTION A
Answer all the questions in this section.
1 ⦿ Track 2 on your CD is a recording from Area of Study 2: Popular Song: Blues, Jazz, Swing and Big Band.
A lead sheet is provided in Extract 1 in the accompanying Insert.
The extract is an arrangement of Me, Myself and I, recorded in 1937. The singer is Billie Holiday.
The lyrics are below.
Me, Myself and I, Are all in love with you, We all think you’re wonderful, We do.
Me, Myself and I Have just one point of view, We’re convinced there’s no one else like you.
It can’t be denied, dear, You brought the sun to us, We’d be satisfied, dear, If you belonged to one of us, So, if you pass me by, Three hearts will break in two, ’Cause Me, Myself and I, Are all in love with you.
(a) At the beginning of the recording Billie Holiday sings bar 1 and bar 2 on one repeated note, not as printed in the lead sheet. Identify the pitch she sings. Underline your answer.
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(b) Write the vocal melody from bar 5 to bar 81 on the stave below. The rhythm of the melody is printed above the stave.
You may write on the Insert but you must copy your final answer on the stave below. Examiners will see and mark only this answer.
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(c) Identify the device in the accompaniment played by the muted trumpet in bar 1 to bar 16 (⦿ from 0’14” to 0’38”). Underline your answer.
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(d) Identify the instrument which plays this type of accompaniment when the singer repeats the melody after the band break (⦿ from about 1’52”).
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(e) The chords in the section from bar 17 to bar 24 are listed below. Write one chord in each box above the stave to show the harmony in this passage.
The chords are: A7 B7 E7 F#7
You may write on the Insert but you must copy your final answer on the stave below. Examiners will see and mark only this answer.
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(f) Explain how Billie Holiday’s vocal performance builds up the excitement when she repeats the melody after the band break.
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(g) In which format was this recording when first sold to the American public in 1937? Underline your answer.
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(h) Identify two limitations of the recording technology of the 1930s.
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(i) The 1937 recording had the word ‘Foxtrot’ printed on the label. Comment briefly on the significance of this.
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2 ⦿ Track 3 on your CD is a recording from Area of Study 1: Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
A skeleton score is provided: Extract 2 in the accompanying Insert.
The extract is from the beginning of the second movement of Beethoven’s Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 23.
The recording is from a 2015 album titled ‘Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin’. (a) Suggest suitable dynamics for the passage from bar 162 to bar 241. The first dynamic is
provided for you. Write your answer on the staves below.
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(b) Beethoven’s tempo marking includes the Italian word ‘scherzoso’ (‘playful’). Explain how the music creates this mood.
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(c) The extract is the beginning of a complete movement in ‘sonata form’. Identify the features of the extract (including themes and tonality) that are characteristic of this structure.
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(d) The music is played on period instruments (violin and fortepiano), similar to the instruments in use when the sonata was first performed. Comment on the effect this has on the performance. Your answer may refer to timbre, texture, articulation, phrasing and dynamics.
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SECTION B
Answer all the questions in this section.
3 Area of Study 1: Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
A full score for Extract 3 is in the accompanying Insert. The extract is part of the prescribed movement from Haydn’s Symphony No. 100 in G, ‘Military’ (first movement).
There is a recording of the extract on your CD: ⦿ Track 4.
(a) Describe the textures and timbres in this extract.
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(b) Explain the effect on Haydn’s music of visiting England and writing for the performers and audiences of London. Refer in your answer to the Military Symphony and/or any other of his ‘London’ symphonies.
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4 Area of Study 2: Popular Song: Blues, Jazz, Swing and Big Band.
Extract 4 (⦿ Track 5) is from Feeling Good, one of the prescribed tracks from Nina Simone’s album I Put a Spell on You.
There is a lead sheet of the extract in the Insert for reference. Stars when you shine, you know how I feel. Scent of the pine, you know how I feel. Oh freedom is mine, and I know how I feel. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, It’s a new life for me. I’m feeling good.
(a) Comment on the role of melody, harmony and tonality in expressing the meaning of the words in this extract.
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(b) Discuss the different approaches to the arrangement and interpretation of Tomorrow Is My Turn in Nina Simone’s recording and in one or more performances by other singers.
There is no recording or score for this question.
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Answer one question from this section.
Write your answer on the lines starting on page 12. Show clearly which question you are answering.
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5* Area of Study 3: Developments in Instrumental Jazz 1910 to the present day.
Prescribed work: Miles Davis: So What, from Kind of Blue
Consider the extent to which the music of So What represented new thinking in instrumental jazz when the recording was made. Refer in detail to the different approaches taken by the soloists.
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6* Area of Study 4: Religious Music of the Baroque Period.
Prescribed work: Purcell: My heart is inditing, Z. 30 Explain how Purcell explores the vocal forces and contrasting textures in My heart is inditing to
create an appropriate anthem for a coronation. Refer to at least three different sections of the music in your answer.
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7* Area of Study 5: Programme Music 1820–1910.
Prescribed work: Tchaikovsky: Fantasy overture Romeo and Juliet Explain how Tchaikovsky uses the expanding instrumental techniques and orchestral colours
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8* Area of Study 6: Innovations in Music 1900 to the present day.
Prescribed work: Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica, movements 1 & 2
Discuss whether the music of Sinfonia antartica can be regarded as characteristic of an English national style. Refer to melody and harmony and other aspects of the music in your answer.
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