Music Paper 2 (Essay) May/June 2015

Question 2

  1. Either
    With reference to GAVOTTE (From French suite) by Bach.

    1. State the key of the music.

     

    1. Quote the first four bars of the melody.
    1. What is the time signature of the music?

     

    1. What period was the music composed?
    1. List five dynamic marks or symbols used in the music.

     

    1. What is the tempo of the music?
     

 

Observation

Candidates were expected to study the set-piece and respond accordingly to the questions. However, most of the candidates performed average in this question. Candidates should have responded to the question in the following ways:
(a) Key G major 
(b)
 
(c)               or Alla breve or 
(d) Baroque Period 
(d) p, mp, f, mf, cresc, ˂,
(f) Moderato or At a moderate pace or Moderately
Or
With reference to Akin Euba’s Ore Meta

  1. State the time signatures of the music.
  1. What instrument introduces the song?

 

  1. State the metronome mark that depicts the tempo of the piece.
  1. In which Nigerian Language is the music written?

 

  1. Notate the range of the voice part using semibreve.
  1. Identify any four compositional devices used in the piano part

 

  1. What category of voice part is the music written for?
  1. What cadence ends the music?

Candidates were expected to study the set-piece and respond accordingly to the questions. However, most of the candidates performed poorly in this question and the major cause of the poor performance was non-availability of the prescribed set-pieces. Candidates should have responded to the question in the following ways:
(a)        and       
(b) Piano
(c)        = 120
(d) Igbo                                                                           
          (e)                                

 

(f) Polarity (unison), repetition, synocopation, hemiola, call & response,
imitation, modulation, chromaticism.   
(g) High Voice, Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor 
(h) Perfect