Music Paper 3 Questions and Answers - MECS Cluster Joint Mock Exams 2021/2022

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MUSIC
PAPER 3

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

  • Write your name and index number in the space provided
  • Answer all the questions in this paper.
  • In question 4 choose any two questions in (a), (b). (c) and (d)
  • All answers must be written in the space provided

SECTION A: BASIC SKILLS.(30 marks)
Answer questions from all sections

  1.          
    1. Continue the following opening to make a melody of 16 bars for voice introducing sequence and triplet Modulate to Relative minor key before returning to the tonic .( 7 marks)
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    2. Use the text below to compose a melody in staff notation. Add phrase marks (8 marks) .
      Kwa Afya nguvu na chakula
      Twakushukuru ewe Bwana
  2. Harmonize the following melody for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass (SATB). Choose appropriate chords from the following: I,ii,IV, V and iv.Incoporate Dominant Seventh .(15 marks)
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SECTION B: HISTORY AND ANALYSIS (54 marks)

  1. AFRICAN MUSIC
    1.            
      1. State three most common vocal ornaments used during the performance of African traditional Music (3 marks)
      2. State three functions of Music in a dance. (3 marks)
    2. Describe how a Ketubet both percussive and melodic effect in the course of his performance. (4 marks)
    3. Outline four aspects of socio-cultural traditions which are always reflected in an African traditional dance performance. (4 marks

SECTION C: HISTORY AND ANALYSIS (54 Marks)

  1. WESTERN MUSIC
    Answer any two of the following questions (a), (b), (c) and (d)
    1. William Byrd
      1. State the nationality of William Byrd (1 mark)
      2. State the rights that Byrd and Tallis were given by Queen Elizabet (3 marks
      3. Outline three sources that influenced Byrd’s style of Music. (3 marks)
    2. Bella Bartok
      1. State the period which he lived. (1 mark)
      2. What is the importance of folk music to Bartok (3 marks)
      3. Outline any three characterics features of Bartok’s style. (3 marks)
    3. Joseph Haydn
      1. State Haydn’s Nationality___________________________________ (1 Mark)
      2. State any 4 of his contemporaries_________________ (2 Marks)
      3. Explain Haydn‘s contribution to instrumental music (2mks)
      4. Describe Haydn‘s service of esterhazy (2 Marks)
    4. Franz Liszt
      1. During which era did Liszt live? _________________________________ (1 mark)
      2. What is a symphonic poem?
      3. Name twosymphonic poemsLiszt wrote.
      4. Give examples of Liszt‘s piano works (2 mark)

  2. PRESCRIBED TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MUSIC
    CHIVOTI BY DIWANI FROM YOU TUBE
    1. Classify the instruments in this recording, giving names of the used instruments in each classification (3 marks)
    2. Describe the relationship between instruments in the recording( 3 marks)
    3. State two ways through which contrast has been achieved in the recording. (2 marks)
    4. State the features of African Music in the performance (2 marks)

  3. PRESCRIBED WESTERN MUSIC-Too much I once lamented by Thomas Tomkins
    1. For what medium is the work scored? (2 mark)
    2. Describe how voices enter at the beginning of this recording. (2 marks)
    3. Identify two devices the composer has used to decorate the melody (2 marks)
    4. Describe the dynamic range of this music. (1 marks)
    5. Describe three ways through which the composer varies the expression in Singing. (3 Marks)
  4. ANALYSIS OF UNPREPARED WORK
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    1. State the main type of text setting in the above piece of music. (1 marks)
    2. Which bar is identical with bar 6? __________________________ (1 Marks)
    3. Name the cadence in bar 7-8. ____________________________ (1 marks)
    4. What is the texture of the Music?_________________________________ ( 1 mark)
    5. Using phrases as sections, identify the general form of the piece of music. ( 2 marks)

  5. SECTION D: GENERAL MUSIC KNOWLEDGE (16 MARKS)
    1. Write out the following using open score using Treble, Alto, Tenor and Bass Clefs (6 marks)
      MusMEcp3q8a
    2. Describe the following terms as used in music. (5 marks)
      1. Tetra chord
      2. Ostinato
      3. Dissonance
      4. Motif
      5. Ululation
    3. State two relationships between Music and language (2 marks)
    4. Give examples of each of the following African traditional Instruments( 3 marks)
      1. Plucked idiophone__________________________________________________
      2. Struck____________________________________________________________
      3. Double stringed fiddle_______________________________________________

MARKING SCHEME

    1. Continue the given opening to make a melody of 16 bars for voice. Modulate to the Dominant before returning to the tonic. Incorporate dynamic variations. Add phrase marks. (9 marks)
      16 Bars- 1 mark
      Correct Modulation- 2 marks
      Lyricism- 2marks
      Dynamic Var - 1mark
      Phrasing- 2 marks
      Cadences- 1 mark (Final and any other)

    2. Using staff notation, compose a tune to suit the following lyrics. Add phrase marks. (6marks)
      ‘Singing, dancing and making merry;
      Lads and lasses in joyous pleasure,
      Syllabic division- 1 mark
      Accentuation- 1 mark
      Lyricism- 2 marks
      cadences – 1 mark (Final and any other)
      Phrasing- 1 mark

      Penalise if not indicated
      Key signature- ½ mark
      Time signature- ½ mark

  1. Copy and harmonize the given melody for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass (SATB). Choose appropriate chords from the following; I, ii, IV, V and vi. Usea passing six four. Indicate the chords that you use. (15 marks)
    Each correct chord ½ mark – 5 marks Cadences - 2mark
    Chord progression- 2 marks Brace, bar lines- 1 mark
    Voice leading- 1 ½ marks
    Voice range -1 ½ marks
    Passing six-four- 2 marks

  2. AFRICAN MUSIC
    1. Identify each of the following Kenyan instruments: (4marks)
      • Arupepe - A horn from Iteso community
      • Embegete - A single headed drum from Kuria community
      • Tuonik - A cowbell from Sabaot community
      • Mwazigizi - A single stringed fiddle from the Taita community.

    2. Name three Kenyan dances that acquire their names from the instruments that accompany them. (3 marks)
      • Isukuti dance
      • Mabumbumbu dance
      • Peke dance
      • Shiriri dance
      • Chepkon’go

    3. State any threeroles of Music in an initiation ceremony. (3 marks)
      • Encourage the initiates to be brave
      • Mock cowards
      • Educate the initiates on their new roles in the society after the ceremony
      • Educate the community on the culture passed down from generation to generation
      • Entertain the gathering
        Any other correct answer

    4. Differentiate between a lyre and a fiddle. (4marks)
      • A fiddle has 1 or 2 strings while a lyre has 6-8 strings
      • Most fiddles are played by bowing while most lyres are played by plucking
      • A fiddle is smaller in size then the lyre
      • A fiddle is played while being held under the arm while lyres are placed between the legs on the ground while playing
      • Any other correct answer

  3. WESTERN MUSIC
    Answer anytwoof the questions (a), (b), (c) and (d).
    1. William Byrd
      1. During which period of Music History did William Byrd live? (1 mark)
        • Renaissance Period

      2. Why is William Byrd refered to as the King of English Music? (2 marks)
        • He established English music genres that other composers emulated/ followed.
        • Developed the English madrigal
        • Wrote virginal and organ music that that elevated the English keyboard style.
        • Composed a great deal of Church music to English lyrics

      3. Outline any two events that Byrd held jointly with Tallis. (2 marks)
        • Was co-organist with Talis at the Royal chapel
        • Jointly granted the monopoly to import, print, publish and sell music and music paper.(accept any of the events)

      4. Outline any two appointments held by Byrd during his musical career. (2 marks)
        • Organist and master at the Lincoln Cathedral
        • Gentleman of the Royal Chapel

    2. Haydn Franz Joseph
      1. State two dutieshe performed while in Esterhazy. (2 marks)
        • He was assistant music director.
        • He was Kapellmeister.
        • Composed symphonies, operas, operattas, masses, chamber music and dance music.
        • He rehearsed and conducted performances of his own and other’s works.
        • Coached singers
        • Settled disputes among musicians in his charge.

      2. Name any two of his symphonies. (2 marks)
        • Surprise
        • Military
        • Clock
        • Drum roll
        • London

      3. What stood out about the Emperor String Quartet by Haydn. (1 mark)
        • It provided the melody for the national anthems of both Germany and Austria

      4. Outline two influences in Haydn’s musical career. (2 marks)
        • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart considerably influenced Haydn in symphonic technique.
        • Other composers e.g. C.P.E Bach who influence him in writing symphonies and sonatas in 3 movements.
        • Influenced by the concertos of Antonio Vivaldi.
        • When he visited London, he was inspired by the works of G.F. Handel.

    3. Franz Liszt
      1. What was Franz Liszt’s Nationality? (1 mark)
        • Hungarian

      2. Give one exampleof Liszt’s symphonic poem. (1 mark)
        • A Faust Symphony

      3. Outline any two influences on his early music training. (2 marks)
        • His father Adams Liszt who taught him piano at the age of five.
        • His teacher Carl Czerny at Vienna.
        • His friend Frederick Chopin

      4. Name any three works by Liszt. (3 marks).
        • Oratorios: Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth and Christus
        • Symphony: A Symphony to Dante’s Divina Commedia
        • 12 symphonic poems, A Faust Symphony
        • Piano concerto, in E-flat, A major and E-flat
        • Piano Sonata: piano sonata in B Minor
        • Rhapsody:Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor
        • Mass: Hungarian Coronation Mass

    4. Bela Bartok
      1. State the three areas in Music which Bela Bartok specialized in. (3 marks
        • Composition
        • Performance (piano)
        • Ethnomusicology

      2. Outline any two influences on Bela Bartok’s composition. (2 marks)
        • His mother taught him piano formally by the age of 5 years
        • His teachers like Istyan Thomas (piano and composition)
        • His contemporaries like Zoltan Kodaly who researched folk music with him, Richard Strauss
        • Music of his predecessors like Claude Debussy, Johannes Brahms
        • His tours to different countries in Europe where he collected folk music and interacted with other composers
        • Folk music from Europe and Asia
        • Nature and environment he was in at different points of hi career

      3. Identify the following works by Bela Bartok (2 marks)
        • The Wooden Prince- Ballet
        • Bluebeards castle- Opera

  4. Prescribed Traditional African Music Chivoti by Diwani Nzaro from Youtube.
    1. Name the media in the recording (2 marks)
      • A Chivoti-flute.
      • Two shaken idiophones- one low pitch and a high pitch.
      • A struck idiophone-upatsu.

    2. State any two roles of the melodic instrument in the recording. (2 marks)
      • Provides the main melodic tunes hence dictate the musical form.
      • Pitches the performance
      • Enriches the music texture.

    3. Outline any three characteristics of African Music evident in this works. (3 marks)
      • The main melodic instrument is accompanied by other percussive instruments hence enhances the performance in the presentation.
      • The music is polyrhythmic; emphasis is laid to the vitality and variations of the many underlying rhythms.
      • The music depicts an implied call-response style either in the melodic instrument itself or between the melodic instrument and the percussive section.

    4. Describe the beginning of the performance in the recording . (3 marks)
      • The music begins with the struck idiophone-upatsu followed by the low pitch shaken idiophone with is immediately followed by the melodic instrument-chivoti and finally the second high pitched shaken idiophone follow suit in a syncopated rhythm.

  5. Prescribed Western: Too Much I Once Lamented: by Thomas Tallis
    1.          
      1. What type of work is Too Much I Once Lamented? (1 mark)
        • Ballet
      2. Give a reason for your answer in (i) above. (1 mark)
        • It has a fa-la-la-la refrain

    2. State the media of this work. (2 marks)
      • Choral work scored for soprano 1, soprano 2, alto, tenor, and bass.

    3. Using bar numbers, identify four stylistic features used between bars 1 to 34. (4 marks)
      • Word painting: bar 15-22 on the word ‘tormented’, bar 49-58 on the word ‘wringing’.
      • Upward scalic movement: bar 24- 33 on the bass line.
      • Sequence: bar24-25 is sequenced at 26-27 on the bass.
      • Imitation: bar 28-29 on the bass imitated at bar 30-31 on the alto.
      • Melismatic: bar4-7 on the tenor.
      • Repetition: bar 73 repeated at bar 74 on the bass.

    4. Identify the dynamics used in this work. (2 marks)
      • mf- bar 1-12
      • f – bar 13-20, 30-35, 59-62, 70-77
      • dim- bar 21-23
      • mp- bar 23-25,63-65
      • cresc.- bar 26-29, 51-58,66-69p-bar 36-50

  6. Unprepared Analysis
    • Study the music extract below and answer the questions that follow.
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      1. By use of bar numbers, identify the form of this work. (2 marks)
        • The music is in binary form (AB)
        • Bar 1 to 16 forms the first section A, while bar 17 to 32 forms the second section B

      2. For what instrument is this music scored for? (1 mark)
        • Scored for keyboard (Piano)

      3. Name the tonic key of this music. (1mark)
        • The tonic key of this music is A minor

      4. Name the key to which the music modulates to at bar 17. (1 mark)
        • The music modulates to the relative major key C major
      5. Write any two commonly used rhythmic motifs in the melody. (1 mark)
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  7.                
    1. Translate the following melody from staff to sol-fa notation. (4 marks)
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      Doh is F major
      Beat= Crotchet
      4{|m:-.f:m.r:d.t,|d.,r:m.f:r:-|d.t,:l,.t,:d:t,|d:-:-:-||}

    2. Define the following musical terms (4 marks)
      1. Ostinato
        • A short musical phrase or melody that is repeated over and over, usually at the same pitch

      2. Symphony
        • A major work for an orchestra usually composed in four movements, at least one of which is in sonata form.

      3. A tempo
        • Go back to the original speed.

      4. Passion
        • A type of oratorio telling the story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.

    3.         
      1. State any two roles of a producer in the Music industry. (2 marks)
        • Records the raw music
        • Edits the music

      2. State four steps to consider before sight singing/ Reading a piece of Music. (2 marks)
        • Key signature
        • Time signature
        • Range
        • Rhythm
        • Any leaps that require attention
        • performance directions
        • Dynamics

    4. Transpose the following music a Major 3rd up. (4 marks)
      MusMEcp3qA8D
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