IGCSE Music (0978) — October–November 2023, Paper 12

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Question 1 · 8 marks · Music A: Baroque, Classical, Romantic or Twentieth Century

Music A1: You will hear an extract for choir and orchestra. The words are printed below: [Orchestral introduction] 1 Beat! beat! drums! – Blow! bugles! blow! 2 Through the windows…

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Question 6 · 8 marks · Music A: Baroque, Classical, Romantic or Twentieth Century

Music A2: You will hear an extract for instruments. Look at the skeleton score (bars 1–10, Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in E minor RV 430, I. Allegro). What compositional device is…

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Question 10 · 6 marks · Music B: World Music

Music B1: You will hear an extract for voices and instruments from around the world (Ancient Civilisations of Southern Africa – The Tswana People). What is the first instrument…

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Question 13 · 6 marks · Music B: World Music

Music B2: You will hear an extract for voices and instruments ('Sur les ailes du condor' – Los Calchakis). Look at the skeleton score (bars 1–17). Question 13 has two parts: (a)…

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Question 16 · 10 marks · Music B: World Focus – Indian Music

Music B3 (World Focus: Indian Music): You will hear two passages from a piece of folk music from Rajasthan (Traditional Music of the Langas and the Manganiyars), separated by a…

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Question 19 · 16 marks · Music C: Western Art Music

Music C1: You will hear an extract for instruments. Look at the skeleton score in the separate insert (bars 1–63, Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 11, I. Allegro…

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Question 27 · 8 marks · Set Work: Haydn – Symphony No. 100

Section D Set Work – Haydn: Symphony No. 100 Music D1: Look at the skeleton score in the separate insert (bars 1–42, 3rd movement). Describe in detail how the music changes when…

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Question 30 · 8 marks · Set Work: Haydn – Symphony No. 100

Music D2: Look at the skeleton score in the separate insert (bars 1–70, 4th movement). What part of the exposition (before the recorded music) is very similar to the music from…

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Question 35 · 8 marks · Set Work: Brahms – Academic Festival Overture

Set Work – Brahms: Academic Festival Overture Music D3: Look at the skeleton score in the separate insert (bars 88–112). How is the music at the start of the extract related to…

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Question 38 · 8 marks · Set Work: Brahms – Academic Festival Overture

Music D4: Look at the skeleton score in the separate insert (bars 358–401). Bars 1–20 are part of which section of the overture?

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