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Exam Technique! • To understand how to get the highest marks in Section B essays (Applied Music) • To learn how to plan a Section B essay in minimum time • • • • • Section B – answer 2 out of 3 Applied Music only No comparison between works 13 marks each – total 26 Describe the main features of a piece which make it appropriate for the context for which it was written • Not required to write in continuous prose – bullet points is OK Mark Descriptor 9-10 Confident. Typically 7-8 relevant, illustrated points, or 9 or more relevant points with limited illustration. The skills needed to produce convincing writing are mostly in place. Good organisation and clarity. Some syntactical and/or spelling errors may be found, but overall the writing will be coherent. 1112 Excellent. Typically 9 or more relevant points with most of them appropriately illustrated. Very few syntactical and/or spelling errors will be present, and these will not detract from the overall coherence. Excellent organisation and planning. All the skills required to produce convincing writing will be in place. 13 Outstanding. Typically more than 9 relevant, well-illustrated points. Same QWC as 11-12 Aspect Relevant points Well-illustrated SPaG Organisation and planning Requirement 10 All of them Excellent Excellent • Referring to instrumentation and harmony, show how Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite goes further than being a simple arrangement of the Baroque originals, being more a recomposition. • Essay structure • • • • Introduction? Instrumentation Harmony Conclusion • Answer the question • 10 relevant points • ANSWER THE QUESTION • Evidence – bar number, give the details • Instrumentation • Vivo – melody in double bass high register, very different timbre • Use of concertino strings in Sinfonia&Vivo BUT is a 5tet unlike authentic Baroque which would be 2VlnsVcContinuo. Sinfonia bar 7 assigns melody to solo Ob and writes Bsn countermelody… • Harmony • • • • Weakened cadences – changes the effect, e.g. III-I bar 66 Vivo Vivo bar 34 adds notes to the chords so cadences sound different Gavotta var 1 bar 43 use of complete tonic chord as a pedal Extra bars added in “wrong” key bar 22 Vivo, rounded binary so would expect this section to begin in dominant… • What aspects of Goldsmith’s Planet of the Apes (1968): The Hunt (opening) make it particularly effective as an accompaniment to a violent chase? • HINT: Structure using musical elements
