Set works — IGCSE Music (0978) questions by topic
Identifying which part of an exposition echoes an earlier bar, naming the song used as a theme in Brahms's Academic Festival Overture, locating a printed extract within a movement's structure, and describing how Beethoven varies an opening theme anchor this set-works page's 24 questions, drawn from 2023 to 2025 papers and worth between 1 and 16 marks. Identify, describe, explain, state and complete test close reading of a skeleton score against the recorded or printed music.
Because skeleton-score questions hinge on matching bar numbers precisely to musical events, submit your answers for instant marking to check whether your identified structural section or thematic change matches the mark scheme's exact terminology.
May–June 2025, Paper 12
Bars 0^3-27 repeat the opening theme of the movement. How has Beethoven changed the music of the opening theme in bars 0^3-9^2?
Answer this question and get it marked →What is the structure of this movement as a whole?
Answer this question and get it marked →In which year did the first performance of this symphony take place? A 1770 B 1792 C 1808 D 1827
Answer this question and get it marked →What section of the movement is the printed music from?
Answer this question and get it marked →On the stave below, write the bracketed notes of the viola part in bar 18 in the treble clef. [Notation task — the viola part is printed in the alto clef in the insert; candidates…
Answer this question and get it marked →What thematic material is heard after the printed music?
Answer this question and get it marked →Explain precisely what is played in bars 4^2-5^1.
Answer this question and get it marked →What section of the solo exposition begins in bar 24?
Answer this question and get it marked →What was different about the construction of the trumpet Haydn wrote this concerto for, compared with other trumpets at this time?
Answer this question and get it marked →What do the violas play in bars 1-8? A Alberti bass B Dominant pedal C Main melody D Tonic pedal
Answer this question and get it marked →What section of the orchestral exposition starts in bar 27?
Answer this question and get it marked →On the stave below, write the two bracketed notes of the trumpet part in bar 67 at sounding pitch. The key signature has been given. [Transposition task — the trumpet in E flat…
Answer this question and get it marked →What is heard next in the movement (after the recorded extract)? A Codetta B Development C Recapitulation D Transition
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2024, Paper 12
Section D Set Work: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 You will hear two extracts. Each extract will be played twice, with a pause between each playing. Music D1: Look at the skeleton…
Answer this question and get it marked →Section D Set Work: Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Overture You will hear two extracts. Each extract will be played twice, with a pause between each playing. Music D3:…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2023, Paper 12
Section D Set Work – Haydn: Symphony No. 100 Music D1: Look at the skeleton score in the separate insert (bars 1–22). Haydn uses material from the start of the movement (before…
Answer this question and get it marked →Music D2: Look at the skeleton score in the separate insert (bars 1–49). Question 30 has two parts: (a) What part of the exposition is heard from bar 1? (b) What is the purpose of…
Answer this question and get it marked →Set Work – Brahms: Academic Festival Overture Music D3: Look at the skeleton score in the separate insert (bars 1–30). Question 34 has four parts: (a) What is the name of the song…
Answer this question and get it marked →Music D4: Look at the skeleton score in the separate insert (bars 1–32). Explain how the music from bars 11–18 is different from when the equivalent passage was first played in…
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 12
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…
Answer this question and get it marked →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…
Answer this question and get it marked →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…
Answer this question and get it marked →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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