Listening: Western tradition — IGCSE Music (0978) questions by topic
Identifying compositional devices in a Vivaldi flute concerto extract, describing an orchestral accompaniment from a skeleton score, and responding to sung translated text about brave soldiers or a rising sun structure this listening page's 6 questions, drawn from 2023 and 2024 papers and marked consistently at 8. Identify, describe, suggest and explain test what you can hear and locate against the printed score.
Submit your descriptions of accompaniment or compositional device for instant marking to see whether the scheme rewards the specific musical terminology it expects, rather than a general impression of the extract's mood.
May–June 2024, Paper 12
Section A Music A1: You will hear an extract from an opera. The words (which are sung in an English translation) are printed below: 1 Brave soldiers, 2 Brave soldiers 3 Arise and…
Answer this question and get it marked →Music A2: You will hear an extract for instruments. Look at the skeleton score and read through questions 7 to 11. The repeats are played on the recording. What instrument plays…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2023, Paper 12
Music A1: You will hear an extract for voices and orchestra. The words (which are sung in an English translation) describe the rising sun and are printed below: 1 Behold the Sun!…
Answer this question and get it marked →Music A2: You will hear an extract for orchestra. Look at the skeleton score (bars 1–12 shown above). Describe the accompaniment in bars 1–12.
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 12
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…
Answer this question and get it marked →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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