MUSC5 (MUS5A, MUS5B, MUS5C) General Certificate of Education Advanced Level Examination June Developing Musical Ideas.

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1 Genera Certificate of Education Advanced Leve Examination June 2011 Music MUSC5 (MUS5A, MUS5B, MUS5C) Unit 5 Deveoping Musica Ideas Briefs To be issued to candidates at the start of the 20 hours of controed time To be conducted between 1 November 2010 and 15 May 2011 A competed work must be submitted to AQA by 15 May For this paper you must have: appropriate faciities and materias for producing and recording compositions. Time aowed 20 hours Instructions Choose one Brief from this booket, either A, B or C, and compose music in response to it. Brief A: you must answer both questions and incude a score for each question. Briefs B and C: you must incude a score or annotation. You must incude a recording on CD or mini-disc. You must compete your chosen Brief within 20 hours of controed time, supervised in your centre. For a Briefs you must aso incude a written review (maximum 500 words). This may be written after the competion of the Brief and outside the 20 hours of controed time. Your work must be produced unaided. Information The maximum mark for this paper is 60. A Briefs carry equa marks. Brief A: both questions carry 30 marks. MUSC5

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3 3 Choose one Brief. Brief A: Compositiona Techniques Answer both questions. Question 1 Harmonisation of a Bach chorae meody Harmonise this chorae meody in the stye of J. S. Bach by adding ato, tenor and bass parts. (30 marks) Brief A continues on the next page Turn over

4 4 Question 2 The Cassica String Quartet Compete this extract in cassica stye. The music of bars shoud be based on bars 1 4. Your score shoud incude a the information necessary for performance, incuding dynamics, phrasing and articuation. (30 marks) Vioin I Vioin II Vioa Vioonceo Poco adagio p p p p Vn. I 5 Vn. II Va. Vc. Vn. I Vn. II Va. Vc. 10 mf

5 5 Vn. I Vn. II 15 mp Va. Vc. Vn. I 20 Vn. II Va. Vc. Vn. I Vn. II Va. Vc. 25 p Vn. I 30 Vn. II Va. Vc. End of Brief A Turn over

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7 7 Brief B: Free Composition or Pastiche You shoud compose music in a stye and genre of your own choice. The compete piece shoud ast 5 to 8 minutes. It may be a singe movement or may consist of up to three separate, reated sections. If you submit a score, it shoud make your intentions cear. It must contain a the information necessary for performance, incuding the names of instruments, the underay of any text, dynamics, phrasing and articuation. If it is not possibe to provide a score, an annotation shoud be written. This shoud incude as much detai as possibe about the structure of the work, its musica materia (chords, meodies and rhythms) and the instruments, voices and sound sources for which you have composed. (60 marks) End of Brief B Turn over

8 8 Brief C: Arranging You shoud arrange Saior s Song, Chorus and Saiors Dance by Purce, using the version which foows. The arrangement must be in a recognised pop, rock or jazz stye. It can be intended for acoustic instruments, eectronic sound sources or a combination of both. It shoud ast 5 to 8 minutes. The ensembe must incude a rhythm section consisting of: drum kit and/or percussion doube bass or bass guitar guitar and/or keyboard instrument. Any number of instruments and/or voices may be added to this rhythm section. The piece has three musica sections, abeed A, B and C on the score. You may use a or part of the given materia, and transpose it into any suitabe key. The use of the yrics is optiona. If you submit a score, it shoud make your intentions cear. It must contain a the information necessary for performance, incuding the names of instruments, the underay of any text, dynamics, phrasing and articuation. If it is not possibe to provide a score, an annotation shoud be written. This shoud incude as much detai as possibe about the structure of the work, its musica materia (chords, meodies and rhythms), the instruments, voices and sound sources for which you have composed and the ways in which the given materia has been used. (60 marks)

9 Saior's Song, Chorus and Saiors' Dance from Act 3 of Dido and Aeneas A Quick f 9 Henry Purce mf B Saior's Song f Come a way, - fe-ow sai - ors, come a - way, your an - chors be weigh -ing, Time and Turn over

10 10 41 tide wi ad - mit no de - ay - ing, Take a booz - y short eave of your nymphs on the 47 p shore, And si - ence their mourn ing with vows of re - turn - ing, But ne - ver in - 53 tend - ing to vi sit - them more, no ne - ver in - tend-ing to vi - sit them 59 B Chorus f more, no nev - er, no nev - er in 65 way, 71 weigh Come a - way, - tend - ing to fe-ow sai - ors come vi - sit them a - way, fe-ow sai - ors, come a - way, come a - way, come a way, -ing, Time and tide wi ad - mit no de - Your - ay - ing, Take a boo - zy short more. an f Come a - - chors be eave of your 77 nymphs on the shore, p And si - ence their mourn- ing with p vows of re - turn - ing, but

11 11 83 ne - ver in - tend - ing to vi - sit them more, no nev - er in - tend - ing to 89 vi - sit them more, no nev- er, no nev-er in - tend ing to vis - it them more. C Saiors' Dance f repeat p 104 f repeat p END OF BRIEFS

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