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SACE Music StudiesPractice Examination 19

Reading time15 minutes
Writing time2 hours
Total marks144
Questions14
StructureSection A — 11 Q, 90 marks · Section B — 1 Q, 6 marks · Section C — 2 Q, 48 marks

This paper covers

  • Q7 score: constructed brass-trio fanfare and chorale in C (ternary, triplets, articulation)
  • Q8 aural-only: constructed heavy-rock excerpt (power chords, drop tuning, half-time feel)
  • Q9 arrangement: 'Hot Cross Buns' developed as a jazz-waltz for piano trio
  • Q10 compare: constructed Classical minuet and constructed Romantic waltz
  • Q13 A cadential six-four in F minor; B secondary dominants in D
  • Q11 string-quartet parts beneath a 6/8 melody in A major
  • Q12 re-barring a 9-beat rhythm in 3/4 and 9/8

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

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SACE Music Studies Practice Examination 19