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
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- 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)
- Use the text below to compose a melody in staff notation. Add phrase marks (8 marks) .
Kwa Afya nguvu na chakula
Twakushukuru ewe Bwana
- 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)
- 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)
SECTION B: HISTORY AND ANALYSIS (54 marks)
- AFRICAN MUSIC
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- State three most common vocal ornaments used during the performance of African traditional Music (3 marks)
- State three functions of Music in a dance. (3 marks)
- Describe how a Ketubet both percussive and melodic effect in the course of his performance. (4 marks)
- Outline four aspects of socio-cultural traditions which are always reflected in an African traditional dance performance. (4 marks
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SECTION C: HISTORY AND ANALYSIS (54 Marks)
- WESTERN MUSIC
Answer any two of the following questions (a), (b), (c) and (d)- William Byrd
- State the nationality of William Byrd (1 mark)
- State the rights that Byrd and Tallis were given by Queen Elizabet (3 marks
- Outline three sources that influenced Byrd’s style of Music. (3 marks)
- Bella Bartok
- State the period which he lived. (1 mark)
- What is the importance of folk music to Bartok (3 marks)
- Outline any three characterics features of Bartok’s style. (3 marks)
- Joseph Haydn
- State Haydn’s Nationality___________________________________ (1 Mark)
- State any 4 of his contemporaries_________________ (2 Marks)
- Explain Haydn‘s contribution to instrumental music (2mks)
- Describe Haydn‘s service of esterhazy (2 Marks)
- Franz Liszt
- During which era did Liszt live? _________________________________ (1 mark)
- What is a symphonic poem?
- Name twosymphonic poemsLiszt wrote.
- Give examples of Liszt‘s piano works (2 mark)
- William Byrd
- PRESCRIBED TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MUSIC
CHIVOTI BY DIWANI FROM YOU TUBE- Classify the instruments in this recording, giving names of the used instruments in each classification (3 marks)
- Describe the relationship between instruments in the recording( 3 marks)
- State two ways through which contrast has been achieved in the recording. (2 marks)
- State the features of African Music in the performance (2 marks)
- PRESCRIBED WESTERN MUSIC-Too much I once lamented by Thomas Tomkins
- For what medium is the work scored? (2 mark)
- Describe how voices enter at the beginning of this recording. (2 marks)
- Identify two devices the composer has used to decorate the melody (2 marks)
- Describe the dynamic range of this music. (1 marks)
- Describe three ways through which the composer varies the expression in Singing. (3 Marks)
- ANALYSIS OF UNPREPARED WORK
- State the main type of text setting in the above piece of music. (1 marks)
- Which bar is identical with bar 6? __________________________ (1 Marks)
- Name the cadence in bar 7-8. ____________________________ (1 marks)
- What is the texture of the Music?_________________________________ ( 1 mark)
- Using phrases as sections, identify the general form of the piece of music. ( 2 marks)
- SECTION D: GENERAL MUSIC KNOWLEDGE (16 MARKS)
- Write out the following using open score using Treble, Alto, Tenor and Bass Clefs (6 marks)
- Describe the following terms as used in music. (5 marks)
- Tetra chord
- Ostinato
- Dissonance
- Motif
- Ululation
- State two relationships between Music and language (2 marks)
- Give examples of each of the following African traditional Instruments( 3 marks)
- Plucked idiophone__________________________________________________
- Struck____________________________________________________________
- Double stringed fiddle_______________________________________________
- Write out the following using open score using Treble, Alto, Tenor and Bass Clefs (6 marks)
MARKING SCHEME
- 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) - 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
- 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)
- 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 - AFRICAN MUSIC
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Identify each of the following Kenyan instruments: (4marks)
- WESTERN MUSIC
Answer anytwoof the questions (a), (b), (c) and (d).- William Byrd
- During which period of Music History did William Byrd live? (1 mark)
- Renaissance Period
- Renaissance Period
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- During which period of Music History did William Byrd live? (1 mark)
- Haydn Franz Joseph
- 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.
- Name any two of his symphonies. (2 marks)
- Surprise
- Military
- Clock
- Drum roll
- London
- 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
- It provided the melody for the national anthems of both Germany and Austria
- 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.
- State two dutieshe performed while in Esterhazy. (2 marks)
- Franz Liszt
- What was Franz Liszt’s Nationality? (1 mark)
- Hungarian
- Hungarian
- Give one exampleof Liszt’s symphonic poem. (1 mark)
- A Faust Symphony
- A Faust Symphony
- 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
- 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
- What was Franz Liszt’s Nationality? (1 mark)
- Bela Bartok
- State the three areas in Music which Bela Bartok specialized in. (3 marks
- Composition
- Performance (piano)
- Ethnomusicology
- 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
- Identify the following works by Bela Bartok (2 marks)
- The Wooden Prince- Ballet
- Bluebeards castle- Opera
- State the three areas in Music which Bela Bartok specialized in. (3 marks
- William Byrd
- Prescribed Traditional African Music Chivoti by Diwani Nzaro from Youtube.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Name the media in the recording (2 marks)
- Prescribed Western: Too Much I Once Lamented: by Thomas Tallis
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- What type of work is Too Much I Once Lamented? (1 mark)
- Ballet
- Give a reason for your answer in (i) above. (1 mark)
- It has a fa-la-la-la refrain
- It has a fa-la-la-la refrain
- What type of work is Too Much I Once Lamented? (1 mark)
- State the media of this work. (2 marks)
- Choral work scored for soprano 1, soprano 2, alto, tenor, and bass.
- Choral work scored for soprano 1, soprano 2, alto, tenor, and bass.
- 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.
- 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
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- Unprepared Analysis
- Study the music extract below and answer the questions that follow.
- 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
- For what instrument is this music scored for? (1 mark)
- Scored for keyboard (Piano)
- Scored for keyboard (Piano)
- Name the tonic key of this music. (1mark)
- The tonic key of this music is A minor
- The tonic key of this music is A minor
- Name the key to which the music modulates to at bar 17. (1 mark)
- The music modulates to the relative major key C major
- Write any two commonly used rhythmic motifs in the melody. (1 mark)
- By use of bar numbers, identify the form of this work. (2 marks)
- Study the music extract below and answer the questions that follow.
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- Translate the following melody from staff to sol-fa notation. (4 marks)
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:-:-:-||} - Define the following musical terms (4 marks)
- Ostinato
- A short musical phrase or melody that is repeated over and over, usually at the same pitch
- A short musical phrase or melody that is repeated over and over, usually at the same pitch
- Symphony
- A major work for an orchestra usually composed in four movements, at least one of which is in sonata form.
- A major work for an orchestra usually composed in four movements, at least one of which is in sonata form.
- A tempo
- Go back to the original speed.
- Go back to the original speed.
- Passion
- A type of oratorio telling the story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.
- A type of oratorio telling the story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.
- Ostinato
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- State any two roles of a producer in the Music industry. (2 marks)
- Records the raw music
- Edits the music
- 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
- State any two roles of a producer in the Music industry. (2 marks)
- Transpose the following music a Major 3rd up. (4 marks)
- Translate the following melody from staff to sol-fa notation. (4 marks)
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