Music Paper 3A (Aural) May/June 2015

Question 5

– Cadences

Observation

Candidates were expected to identify the three cadences used at the point of pulse and order in which they occur. The cadences may either be perfect, imperfect, plagal or interrupted. This question was popular among the candidates and their performance was quite impressive. The points stated by candidates to score good marks included:

  1. Perfect/ Fullclose
  2. Plagal / Amen
  3. Perfect/ Fullclose