Music Paper 3A (Aural) May/June 2015

Question 6

Modulations

Observation

Candidates were expected to identify three changes of key in passages beginning with key of G major and modulate to either the dominant, subdominant and relative minor. They were expected to write the letter name of the new key and its relationship with the original key. Candidates’ performed below average in this question; this was due to weak aural perception of most candidates which hampered them from tackling this question appropriately thereby losing good marks. They were expected to state the following in their responses

(i)         Dominant  (D Major)
(ii)        Relative minor  (E Minor)
(iii)       Subdominant   (C Major)