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Irregular metres; phew :smile:

!!

see the one where the tenor guy sang a kinda opera song, was it a madrigal, or not?
i didn't think it was, i was stuck between it & melisma, but there was only a few melismatic bits in it & the whole thing was sung in English, i'm pretty sure .. that's wrong, isn't it?!!

Reply 43

Ronar

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Willis Brightside

Irregular metres; phew :smile:

!!

see the one where the tenor guy sang a kinda opera song, was it a madrigal, or not?
i didn't think it was, i was stuck between it & melisma, but there was only a few melismatic bits in it & the whole thing was sung in English, i'm pretty sure .. that's wrong, isn't it?!!

i put aria :/

Reply 44

C274

what's a recitative secco?! I think my teacher mentioned it once... :confused:

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Recitative secco's the half sung, half speech vocal writing with sparse chordal accompaniment? It's usually a harpshichord that plays the chords, it's a Baroque concept :smile:

I hope they take recitative though; that's all I wrote :smile:

!!

Reply 45

OP

Willis Brightside

Irregular metres; phew :smile:

!!

see the one where the tenor guy sang a kinda opera song, was it a madrigal, or not?
i didn't think it was, i was stuck between it & melisma, but there was only a few melismatic bits in it & the whole thing was sung in English, i'm pretty sure .. that's wrong, isn't it?!!

I think so. Madrigals are in Latin aren't they?

Reply 46

obscurename

I think so. Madrigals are in Latin aren't they?

Ohhhhh... I thought madrigals were in English?!
Oh well :smile:

Reply 47

OP

Willis Brightside

Ohhhhh... I thought madrigals were in English?!
Oh well :smile:

Just checked, I was wrong, they are in English :frown:

Reply 48

Meteorshower

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Willis Brightside

Ohhhhh... I thought madrigals were in English?!
Oh well :smile:

They are. Motets and masses are in latin.

Reply 49

obscurename

Just checked, I was wrong, they are in English :frown:

I wouldn't worry; you've not heard anything till you've heard this:
I've had the same teacher take me for listening for three years, and today she sat in the exam with the head and done the exam. The head had a look at her answers in private, shook her head and said that she didn't agree with a fair few of them.

Encouraging to know, eh?!

Reply 50

kitkatcait

I got broken chords, irregular metres and aria for the answers in question.

Also, I can't remember the question number but it was asking about two contrasting styles of keyboard playing....what on earth was the first one? XD

Reply 51

E-S-O

kitkatcait

I got broken chords, irregular metres and aria for the answers in question.

Also, I can't remember the question number but it was asking about two contrasting styles of keyboard playing....what on earth was the first one? XD

Boogie-Woogie!

Reply 52

kitkatcait

Man, I KNEW it
I was just too scared about writing 'boogie-woogie' in an exam paper and it being wrong XD

Reply 53

For the boogie-woogie thing, I think out of desperation during a mind blank, I wrote ragtime - how ridiculous!

Reply 54

OP

Willis Brightside

For the boogie-woogie thing, I think out of desperation during a mind blank, I wrote ragtime - how ridiculous!

I thought it was ragtime as well. Had that 20s/30s feel to it.

Reply 55

E-S-O

I could tell it was boogie-woogie straight away. It was nearly the exact same as the excerpt on the learn listening online website

Reply 56

See the comparison question at the end, did you guys think it was quite difficult compared to past papers?
E.g. I thought the 2008 comparison question was piss-easy, but this year's? Quite a different story, haha :smile:

What common features did you all get? x

Reply 57

Ronar

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I said for both minor,obbligato, dotted rhythm and i cant remmber

for the first one I said sonata and I don't remember anymore haa

Reply 58

OP