Observation

This question was popular among the candidates and most of these candidates performed above average. However, a few of the candidates mistook musical instruments for instrumental forms. They should have responded thus:

•           (a)  Characteristics of music of the Baroque period.
• - Unity of mood, melody and rhythm
• - Development of vocal forms such as oratorios, cantatas, passions and operas
• - New instrumental forms such as sonata, suite and concerto grosso emerged
• - Equal importance of both vocal and instrumental music
• - The major and minor scales were fully established
• - New scales such as Ionians (major) and the Aeolian (minor) developed
• - Figured bass (basso continuo) was established
• - Terraced Dynamics
• - Well tempered scales                         
• - Prominence in the use of modulations

•  (b)
• (i) Henry Purcell 
• - Dido and Aeneas

• - Dioclesian
• - Timon of Athens
• - The Fairy-Queen
• - The Indian Queen
• - King Arthur 
• - The tempest

• (ii) George Frederick Handel 
• - Acis and Galatea
• - Arianna in Creta
• - Atalanta
• - The Enchanted Island
• - Radamisto
• - Giulio Cesare
• - Tamerlano
• - Rodelinda 
• - Ottone
• - Semele
• - Samson
• - Theodora Tolomoe
• - Xerxes          

• (iii) Claude Monteverdi
• - L’Orfeo  (Orfeo)
• - L’Areanna  (Areanna)
• - Ilritorno d’Vlisse in Patria
• - L’incoranazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)
• - Illcombattimento di Tranledi e clorinda.                              

 
(c) sonata, suite, concerto grosso, fugue, divertimento, sinfonia, partita, fantasia, toccata.