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Music Paper 2, May/June. 2012  
Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 Main
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QUESTION 3.          


(a)        Write brief notes on any three of the following:
            (i)         major scale;
            (ii)        minor scale;
            (iii)       chromatic scale;
            (iv)       pentatonic scale.

(b)        On the treble staff, notate one example each of the three scales in (a) above.        

 


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This question was popular among the candidates and some of these candidates performed remarkably. Most of them demonstrated strong understanding of the rudiments of music and were able to get all available marks. However, some candidates performed below average and this group of candidates should have responded to the question thus:

  1. A major Scale

 

A major scale is a representation of notes on the staff or stave, either ascending or descending following the pitch sequences of 2 tones, half tone, 3 tones, half tone (TTSTTTS).
OR
A stepwise arrangement of eight tones of music, ascending or descending using the pitch parameter based on (tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone (TTSTTTS).
     

 

OR
Eight successive notes, written on the stave, ascending or descending from the 1st to its 8th note (Octave) in the pattern of two whole steps, half step, three whole steps and a half step. Example, A  -  A,   B -  B,   C -  C  e.t.c.
                       
(a)        (i)         Minor Scale

A minor scale is a scale whose third and usually 6th or 7th are lowered by a semitone than those in the major scale. Example, harmonic, melodic and natural.

(ii)        Chromatic Scale

A musical scale proceeding semitones or A scale of 13 notes ascending or descending in semitones.

(iii)       Pentatonic Scale
A scale of five notes widely found in folk music  or A five note scale equivalent to the black notes on a piano and their transpositions.

(b)        (i)         Example of a major scale

Ascending                                                                   Descending

           
(ii)        Examples of minor scales                

 Natural Minor
                              Ascending                                         Descending

 

 

Harmonic Minor                  
Ascending                                                                   Descending

 

Melodic Minor
1.TIFAscending                                                                   Descending

           
           
                                               
(iii)       Example of Pentatonic scale
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(iv)       Example of Chromatic Scale
                        Ascending                                                       Descending

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