Practice Examination Questions for Pearson Edexcel GCSE Music (9-1) 2016 Specification - Area of Study 2: Vocal Music

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Practice Examination Questions for Pearson Edexcel GCSE Music (9-1) 2016 Specification, Area of Study 2: Vocal Music. Includes set-work listening tasks based on Henry Purcell excerpts titled Music for a While, requiring timed listening and selection questions. Covers musical dictation, unfamiliar listening, and analysis prompts such as identifying keys, cadences, texture, voice types, harmony, relationships between voice and continuo, rhythm, and comparisons of melodies. Includes student mark record material and answer instructions.

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Set Work Listening

Musical Dictation

Unfamiliar Listening

Details of Recordings

Student Mark Record Sheet

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Identify the key and cadence at the end of the extract.
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Key………………………………………………………………………………………….
Cadence……………………………………………………………………………………
(e) State three purposes of the introduction.
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(Total for Question 1 = 9 marks) | | --- | | | Practice Examination Questions for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) in Music (2016 Specification) 5 Area of Study 2: Vocal Music Copyright © 2016 Sean Young Henry Purcell: Music for a While (2.08-2.48) 2 Listen to the following extract which will be played three times. (a) What type of voice is heard in the

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How should answers be marked in the practice examination questions?

Write answers in the spaces provided. Some questions require putting a cross in a box, and if an answer changes, draw a line through the box and mark the new choice with a cross.

What listening tasks are included for Henry Purcell set works?

The questions ask which musical features are used, when the voice enters, descriptions of vocal melody, and analysis of key, cadence, texture, harmony, and the relationship between the voice and continuo.

What kinds of music-related analysis skills are tested in Area of Study 2: Vocal Music?

Learners identify musical elements such as voice type, interval relationships, repeated-word setting, rhythm of bass, and compare melodies between Purcell extracts, alongside dictation from provided score materials.

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