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MUSIC EXAM
Duration – 1 hour and 30 minutes
Each correct answer is worth 1 mark out of a total of 100, unless stated otherwise.
SECTION 1 – NAME THAT TUNE (33 Marks)
Listen carefully to each piece of music. Write your answers in the spaces provided below.
1. What type of classical music is playing in this piece? 
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2. Who wrote this symphony and what is its name?
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3. Who wrote this Requiem?
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To whose memory was it written?
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Why was it left unfinished? (2 marks)
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4. What type of classical music is playing?
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Who is the composer?
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5. Name the genre.
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6. Name the genre.
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7. Name the genre.
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8. This song is from the early days of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Who is the singer?
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9. This is another example of early Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Who is the singer?
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10. The following song is a combination of two rock genres.
Name the two genres and the singer. (2 marks)
Two Genres ______________________________________
Singer ___________________________________
11. This song is famous for its use of feedback at the beginning. Which major group of the Sixties wrote the song?
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12. Name the band playing this song.
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13. Who is performing this song and what is the rock genre?
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14. This song appears on The Beatles album ‘Revolver’. What rock genre is it an early example of?
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15. Which major band were influenced by this new sound, leading them to record a whole album based on this new rock genre, from which the following song is taken?
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16. From which famous Beatles album does this song come and what is the title of the song?
Album ___________________________________
Song ____________________________________
17. Name the song and the band.
Song ____________________________________
Band ____________________________________
18. Who is performing this song?
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19. Name the singer of this song.
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20. Name the song and the singer.
Song ____________________________________
Singer ___________________________________
21. Name the band.
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22. Name the singer.
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23. Name the song and the band.
Song ____________________________________
Band ____________________________________
24. This is a song from the 1970’s called Bohemian Rhapsody. Can you name the band?
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25. Name the band.
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26. Who is this song by and what new rock genre did they help to create?
Band ____________________________________
Genre ___________________________________
27. This song is from the same genre as the last song. Who are the band this time?
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28. Name the song and band.
Song ____________________________________
Band ____________________________________
29. Name the singer.
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30. Name the singer.
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SECTION 2 – NAME THAT INSTRUMENT (12 Marks)
Listen carefully to the following pieces. Write your answers in the spaces provided below.
31. What instrument is playing in this piece by J. S. Bach?
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32. Which two instruments can you hear in this piece?
Instrument 1 _______________________________
Instrument 2 _______________________________
33. What instrument is playing in this piece by Frederic Chopin?
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34. Which wind instrument can you hear playing in this piece by Claude Debussy?
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35. In this piece you can hear a wind instrument accompanied by an orchestra. What is the name given to this combination?
You will need to identify the wind instrument first.
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36. In this piece Ludwig van Beethoven uses an entire orchestra to create and orchestral composition on a great scale in sonata form.
What is the name given to this particular use of the orchestra?
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37. What is the name given to this particular collection of instruments in this piece by Ludwig van Beethoven?
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38. Can you identify the following instruments? (3 marks)
Write in the answers in the spaces provided below.
39. In a violin, cello or clarinet sonata there is usually a piano or harpsichord also playing.
What is the role of the keyboard instrument in such pieces?
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40. Which wind instrument in the orchestra can produce the highest sound?
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SECTION 3 – CLASSICAL MUSIC (10 Marks)
41. In the table below there are four different, brief descriptions of four different periods of classical music.
The descriptions include approximate dates and a few phrases that sum up each period.
In the second column you need to write in one of the following four classical periods in the correct spaces. (2 marks)
Classical Experimental Romantic Baroque
In the third column you need to give an example of a composer from each period.
(2 marks)
Date and Description |
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1600 – 1750 |
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1750 – 1825 |
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1820’s – 1918 |
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42. Romanticism represented a rejection of many of the ideals of the Enlightenment, such as Knowledge, Science, Order and the importance of the City.
Name some of the ideals of the Romantic Movement. (2 marks)
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43. The Romantic composer, Hector Berlioz, was very interested in literature as well as music. He hoped in his music to try and combine the two.
How did he try to achieve this? Give an example of one of his works. (2 marks)
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44. Another Romantic composer, Robert Schumann, was a very gifted pianist as well as composer. In an attempt to improve his playing what did he damage so seriously that
he was never able to perform again?
Tick the correct answer.
45. What was the name of the great Polish pianist and composer of the Romantic period?
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SECTION 4 – HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC (35 Marks)
46. The very first rock ‘n’ roll sound could be heard as early as the 1850’s in New York.
Complete the following sentence.
The fast and wild melodies of Irish jig and other European folk were being mixed with the deep rhythms and beats of _______________________.
47. By the 1920’s blues music had become very popular with Afro-Americans. Over time some musicians began to play blues music faster.
What new music genre did this create? (Clue we use the same name now for a very different type of black music)
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48. The fast, stomping beats of this new music began to attract an ever-wider audience of both black and white people in America.
However many radio stations would not play this black music.
Why would they not play this music?
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49. Record companies were desperate to sell this popular new music but could not use black singers and musicians.
What was the solution of the record companies? Give an example. (2 marks)
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50. One of the greatest white rock stars of the 50’s was Elvis Presley. Elvis was essentially recording old blues songs and giving them a country and western twist and energy. 
Can you name two of his early songs?
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51. Up until the early 60’s most rock songs were about being in love or having a good time. The folk singer / songwriter, Bob Dylan, helped change all this.
What were Bob Dylan’s early songs about?
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52. In 1965 at the Newport Folk Festival, the audience booed Bob Dylan and called him a ‘traitor’.
Why? (2 marks)
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53. In the early 60’s most British singers were just trying to copy Elvis Presley – and usually not very well!
By 1962 a new band had emerged on the scene who breathed new life into rock music. Covering old blues songs, with powerful singing, a faster rhythm and a rock ‘n’ roll attitude they were a huge influence on many new British bands.
Who were they? (Clue – they are still performing today)
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54. The most popular band of the 60’s were The Beatles from Liverpool, England.
Like many bands before them they began by covering old blues and early rock songs.
Gradually however, they began to write their own songs. Throughout the 60’s they wrote some of the greatest rock songs of all time.
Two members of the band wrote most of the songs. Who were they?
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55. Below is a list of some of the greatest songs from the first half of the 60’s, with a list of the singers and bands of that period.
Match up the song to the band / singer. (3 marks)
The Times They Are A Changin’ The Beatles
You Really Got Me The Rolling Stones
Help! The Animals
My Generation The Beatles
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction The Kinks
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood Bob Dylan
Norwegian Wood The Who
56. The late 1960’s in the Western World saw a period of great cultural upheaval and change. The new generation of youth rejected the old world order and sought to bring about a new type of society.
What did they want this new society to be based upon?
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Can you think of a song from the 60’s that reflected this desire for new ideals?
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57. One of the most important movements of the 60’s was the Civil Rights Movement, who campaigned throughout this period.
What did the Civil Rights Movement campaign for?
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58. One of the most prominent members of the Civil Rights Movement made a famous speech in 1963. The following is an extract from this speech.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
Who made this speech? In your own words explain what he meant. (2 marks)
This speech was made by ________________________________________________
Meaning of these words _________________________________________________
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59. What happened to the man who made the above speech in 1968?
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Which other vocal supporter of the Civil Rights Movement also met the same fate later in the year?
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60. In the same year The Beatles released the White Album. This album contained a song in support of the struggles of black peoples.
What was the name of this song?
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61. As well as protest songs, rock music of the late 60’s began to develop in a way that the early rock stars of the 50’s could never have imagined.
Experimenting with new sounds, using hypnotic beats, a wide range of instruments including electronic sampling, this new sound captured the wild, colourful and ambitious mood of the 60’s.
What is the name traditionally given to this new rock genre? Tick the correct answer.
62. As rock music developed into more of an art form artists began to start up their own bands.
In 1965 the artist Andy Warhol became manager of a band from New York. The band never achieved any real success but their influence on other bands and musicians was huge.
It was said of their first album that although hardly anyone bought it, everyone who did went on to start their own band.
Name the band and its leading singer.
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63. Can you name at least two bands that were very influenced by the above band?
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64. On the West Coast of America a very different style of rock was developing, called Surf Rock.
What was the name of the most popular surf rock band?
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65. Although rock music was originally inspired by and made by black musicians, there are very few examples of black rock stars in the 1960’s.
What did some black musicians do instead?
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There was one major exception to this trend. Regarded as the greatest guitarist of his generation his name was…?
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66. 1970 marked not only the end of the 60’s but in many ways the end of the 60’s spirit. Dreams of peace, love and communal living were replaced with the extreme hedonism of the ‘Me Generation’.
In rock music a number of major bands split up, and some of the great rock stars died of drugs overdoses.
Name two bands that split up.
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Name two rock musicians who died.
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67. The first half of the 70’s was dominated by a new rock genre – Progressive Rock.
In the box below describe the music of ‘Prog’ rock and give an example of a ‘prog’ rock band. (2 marks)
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68. By the second half of the 70’s some musicians started to react against the complexities of progressive rock. They wanted something simpler, a music of raw power. Influenced by the rock music coming out of New York, a new rock genre was born.
What was the name of this new rock genre?
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69. What was the name of the most famous band of this genre? Give a brief summary of their short but highly influential history. (2 marks)
Name of the Band__________________________________________________
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SECTION 6 – GENERAL (10 Marks)
70. All music is made up of a number of key components.
The table below contains two columns. In column 1 is an unfinished list of these musical components. In column 2 is an unfinished list of brief descriptions of each component.
Fill in the missing sections. (5 marks)
Beat |
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The sound of two notes or more, producing chords which make a pleasing sound. |
Melody |
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The difference in duration (time) and emphasis (accentuation) in the arrangement of notes. |
Tempo |
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71. In the box below draw a treble clef musical stave.
Starting with the middle C, write the name of the next 12 notes across the stave on and inside the correct lines. (4 marks)
72. What does improvisation in music mean?
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