April UM May Revision 27: 8 days to Go! - THE GRID QUESTION / CHORDS

There are 8 days to go until the Higher Understanding Music paper on Friday 5th May.

a) One of the questions in the Higher paper will consist of a       grid (see example below).

You will have a minute to prepare for this question. In this time, make sure you read through the concepts and know what they mean. 

You are asked to listen to 2 excerpts of music and identify concepts which appear in the music. 

You will be ticking in 3 columns. 

• Column A is for Excerpt 1 - place ticks in column A when you hear concepts in this excerpt.
• Column B is for Excerpt 2 - place ticks in column B when you hear concepts in this excerpt.
• Column C is for concepts which appear in both excerpts. THIS IS THE ONLY COLUMN WHICH WILL BE MARKED!

You should place 5 ticks in Column C. This means that there are 5 concepts which appear in both excerpts of music.

The grid will look something like this - 

	Concepts	Column A Excerpt 1	Column B Excerpt 2	Column C 5 features common to both
Melody / Harmony	Major key
	Tierce de Picardie
	Trill
	Diminished 7th
Rhythm	Augmentation
	Diminution
	Rubato
	Time changes
Styles	Symphony
	Sonata
	Chamber Music
Timbre	A cappella
	Coloratura
	Tremolando
				5 marks

b) Here is some info on chords. Listen and learn to                     recognise. This always comes up.

diminished 7th chords - listen to the chords at the start, from 0m 06s to 0m 12s.

added 6th chord - listen to the final chord, at 3m 07s.

Another added 6th chord - listen to the final chord here, at around 2m 16s.

dominant 7th chords - the vocals at the start of this song, until 0m 09s, form the notes of a dominant 7th chord.

dominant 7th chords - it happens again here, from 1m 39s, when the first 4 'ahs' are the notes of the dominant 7th chord.