Cambridge International Examinations Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education MUSIC 040/ Paper Listening MARK SCHEME Maximum Mark: 70 Published This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates, to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners meeting before marking began, which would have considered the acceptability of alternative answers. Mark schemes should be read in conjunction with the question paper and the Principal Examiner Report for Teachers. Cambridge will not enter into discussions about these mark schemes. Cambridge is publishing the mark schemes for the series for most Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge International A and AS Level and Cambridge Pre-U components, and some Cambridge O Level components. IGCSE is a registered trademark. This syllabus is approved for use in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as a Cambridge International Level /Level Certificate. This document consists of 5 printed pages. UCLES 07 [Turn over
Music A Crescendo (accept cresc.) Orchestra Steady tempo / steady pulse / march tempo / walking pace etc. [] or 4 time [] (Many) dotted rhythms [] (Prominent) brass [] (Much use of) cymbal / snare drum / percussion [] 4 Homophonic 5(a) Romantic / 9th century (accept 0th century) 5(b) Large orchestra Wind/brass playing melody Use of chromaticism Music A 6 Piano 7 Glissando [] Pedal note [] 8 Whole tone 9(a) Impressionism 9(b) Fluctuating tempo / free rhythm / rubato [] Irregular phrase lengths [] Parallel motion / chords [] Changing metre [] Homophonic texture [] Unresolved dissonances / not traditional harmonic progressions / discords [] Pentatonic scale [] Music B 0 Bandoneon / accordion Chromatic scale (Bars 4 are) staccato / detached [] (Bars 5 8 are) legato / slurred / smooth [] Note: Must be in correct order for marks (a) Argentina / South America / Latin America (b) 4 beats in a bar / syncopation / accented notes / it is a tango UCLES 07 Page of 5
Music B 4(a) Ūd / lute 4(b) Heterophony / different versions of the same melody / in octaves 5 Short phrases [] Repetitive [] Narrow range / range of a 5th [] Each phrase falls in pitch [] Moves by step [] Some ornamentation / pitch bending / trills [] Long last note [] Minor (tonality / scale) [] 6 Arab / Middle East / Central Asia (NOT just Asia) Music B (World Focus: Indian Music) 7 There is a tānpurā / tambourā [] playing the drone [] and a violin [] improvising / exploring (the notes of the rāg) [], while another violin plays a short drone []. It is slow [] and unmetred []. 4 8 Ālāp 9 In the second passage there is a mridangam [] playing the tāl / tāla []. The music is metred [] and faster []. The two violins play in octaves []. Passage is pre-composed / not improvised []. 0 The strings are tuned as octave pairs (accept tuned differently / tonic and dominant) [] Accept it is played by being held between the shoulder and the foot / upright / on the floor etc. 4 Section C Perfect [] fourth [] (award mark for perfect only if fourth is correct). (a) Key: E (major) [] Cadence: Perfect [] (b) Dominant Entirely correct: [] bar correct, bar partly correct: [] bar correct, bar incorrect: [] Little accuracy: [0] UCLES 07 Page of 5
4 Binary / AB / AA I [] 5(a) Minuet [] 5(b) Triple time / /4 [] Moderate tempo [] 6(a) Baroque 6(b) Harpsichord / (basso) continuo [] Ornaments [] Sequences [] Only string instruments used [] accept string-dominated 7 Sonata [] Music D Vivaldi: Summer from the Four Seasons 8 Adagio [] 9 (Repeated) dotted notes [] to represent flies / blowflies [] 0 Music representing thunder [] It is loud [], played by the orchestra [], it is monophonic / unison / in octaves [], the note G is repeated / repeated notes [], there are no dotted rhythms [] and it is presto/fast []. MAX marks for description of music (a) B flat (major) (b) Relative major [] Music D (a) The cuckoo (b) (Play on the) A string (c) Rapid alternation between a repeated note and changing notes It is shorter 4 One mark per (different) note (E flat and D) 5 st section: Episode () [] nd section: Ritornello () [] UCLES 07 Page 4 of 5
Music D Mozart: Symphony No. 4 6 Credit answers which refer to any of the following points: Octaves/unison vs homophonic []. Forte vs piano []. Tutti vs strings []. Grand vs gentle []. Use of silence []. Tonic (C) vs Dominant (G) [] Low vs high [] Accept staccato vs legato / shorter vs longer notes [] 7 Tonic pedal 8 Imperfect 9 The theme is played by violins only [] and is piano, not forte / not played by the whole orchestra (if not already awarded for violins only) []. A (wind) countermelody / its own melody [] has been added, and a broken chord (in the horns) []. 40(a) Transition (accept bridge passage) 40(b) To modulate (to the dominant) Music D4 4(a) E flat (major) 4(b) The second subject (opera buffa theme) 4 One mark per note 4 Candidates may refer to development techniques including: Sequence: e.g. the pattern from bar 0 is played as an ascending sequence by violins and imitated by violas and cellos. From bar 9 it is played in descending sequence by violins with violas and cellos in canon half a bar later. From bar it is again used as a descending sequence which is imitated. Imitation: e.g. In bar 7 the violas and cellos take the pattern from bar 9 which is then imitated by violins. (and other examples above) Modulation: The theme passes through several keys during the extract (e.g. E flat major / G minor / F minor / C minor / E major). Fragmentation e.g. b9 first half of b0 melody A detailed and accurate description; must involve bar numbers [] A few specific examples given [] Award a mark of for correct observations, which do not meet the descriptor above No valid points: [0] 44 False recapitulation / first subject in F major / theme UCLES 07 Page 5 of 5