Advanced Higher Music
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Re: Advanced Higher MusicAlso me!
I honestly didn't think there were many other AH musos on here, so I didn't bother starting a thread - it seems we're the sort who crawl out of the woodwork at exam time.
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Re: Advanced Higher MusicI had mine on Friday, it went reasonably well (apart from the examiner was really weird in that he gave me the choice of what order I did my pieces in, and he made me do two pieces in full for singing because he "felt sorry" for me after he stopped one of my other pieces just as I started the ornamented da capo). You'll be fine!
What are your instruments?
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Re: Advanced Higher MusicSo how did everyone find it?
Personally, I couldn't have wished for a nicer paper! Thought the grid question was amazing. And with the Queen and Paolo Nutini I spent most of my time smiling and dancing along (wrote my answers down as well obviously...)
Off to try and find out what the piece from the first essay question was - I have a hunch it was by Andrew Lloyd Webber and want to see if my psychic powers are right.
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Re: Advanced Higher MusicYeah it was Bb major 2nd inversion.
Bubble question, I can't really remember what all the questions were, but I do remember saying it was neo-classical because, and this was my genuine thought process, I thought it sounded like Prokofiev. Went on Facebook and guess what? Someone had posted a comment about the paper and how it included "Prokofiev's Symphonie Classique". I love it when I guess the composer right.
The only bit I'm worried about is the Fun Fair question - I said it was organised sound because it sounded more orchestral to me, with a few sound effects, but my friend and teacher both wrote musique concrète. I'm hoping they'll give the mark for either! And also the first question I said galliard but thought it might be a chaconne because it sounded very repetitive/variation-y. I don't know
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Wooo!
I put chamber music, had no idea! For the first part I said that the music starts on beat 3
Yeah I put music concrete but they might still give you the mark for organised sound.
I think I put both galliard and chaconne! I found the first two questions quite difficult tbh! -
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Re: Advanced Higher MusicAh, I said 3 originally but changed it to 4 on the third playing, because at first I thought the anacrusis was 4 quavers, but then when I was tapping the pulse I realised that it was actually 4 semiquavers.
The second question was quite good for me actually, because a. my friend plays that piece all the time, and b. I was listening to it on the radio the other day (ironically I turned the radio on at about the same point the excerpt began so heard it from exactly the same bit in the music!), so I know it quite well. I ticked late romantic then it dawned on me that it was Beethoven's La Pathetique sonata and quickly scribbled it out.
I just had another listen to an excerpt of Fun Fair, and it is so obvious now that it was musique concrète. I think I mistook the sirens for trombones playing glissandos... *head desk*
I even revised the difference between MC and OS at the weekend specifically because I knew I would make that kind of mistake!
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Re: Advanced Higher MusicYep, that's what I thought. Clarinet wasn't really used in the Baroque period, they seemed to prefer double reeds...(Original post by DM10)
Excerpt 1 had an oboe in it I think whereas clarinet was in Excerpt 2. -
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Re: Advanced Higher Musicyeah i definitely thought this was the hardest paper in the last 4/5 years seeing as i have done all the past papers from 2007 onwards and scored at least 28, nearly broke down in tears in the exam i thought it was that hard aha(Original post by pinkpaper94)
I think this was the most difficult paper compared to the earlier years
What did everyone put for question 1 and the egg question?
At least I got the rest!
