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