AQA GCSE Music Exam (2019)

This is exactly what I’m trying to find out, the one with the women?

For me, the exam was 50/50; I found section A okay (except i put the wrong notes in for the Coldplay section🤦*♂️), but apart from that it was alright. Oh, and I love Paul Simon, so I know Graceland like the back of my hand, as well as Suddenly Seymour. Section B though............... god. I was struck by the bloody E-flat major question on the Haydn. Also, I spent hours revising Within You, Without You for the 8 mark question on the Beatles, and IT WAS LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS!!! However, both the questions were quite generic, and even though the particular elements are moderately hard to write about it, it went pretty okay.

Anyone else’s opinions?

what was the e-flat major question on haydn?

For me, the exam was 50/50; I found section A okay (except i put the wrong notes in for the Coldplay section🤦*♂️), but apart from that it was alright. Oh, and I love Paul Simon, so I know Graceland like the back of my hand, as well as Suddenly Seymour. Section B though............... god. I was struck by the bloody E-flat major question on the Haydn. Also, I spent hours revising Within You, Without You for the 8 mark question on the Beatles, and IT WAS LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS!!! However, both the questions were quite generic, and even though the particular elements are moderately hard to write about it, it went pretty okay.

Anyone else’s opinions?

Hi,

I am also doing AQA music this year and I was wondering whether you would be able to tell me the main topics and elements that came up in the 2019 paper so that I get a rough idea about what to revise. There aren't many practice papers so any help would be grateful.

Thanks.

the longer answers (3 mark features of the styles) are: piano music, pop music, blues, copland, classical, rock 60-70s, folk, british composers.
haydn is (2mark: the woodwind, the empty bar, the ticking motif) (8mark, timbre, dynamics, rhythm, form
beatles (2mark: within you without you- rhythm in the instrumental section and recording techniques, the bridge in help from friends) (8mark: lucy- rhythm metre melody timbre)

thanks! do you know any of the songs names for the listening?

Faure des irae, chopin raindrop prelude, coldplay clocks, little rock blues, (copland) in appalachian spring, new england countryside,
mozart flute and harp concerto k229 (melodic dictation question), the kinks days, alan menken suddenly seymour, train to scarville, lady maisery fathers lullaby, malcolm arnold 4 scottish dances, ii, allegretto