I go to Western Academy of Beijing, do u know it? how about you?
I just had music class today. We were talking about some techniques during the exam. I m gna type it out in here. Hope it would help you guys.
The listening and Analysis Paper is 2 hours 30 minutes long. It contains a question (normally split into 2 parts on your prescribed work, 40 marks) and 4 question on unprepared listening.
You will have the score for your prescribed work. All questions will include an audio recording. You may or may not given the score, title, composer etc of the unprepared listening examples.
If you are given the score you must refer accurately to it by bar number and beat, when writing your answers. If no score identify figures, or sections or elements by time on the recording. Remember to attempt musical notation relating to your answers in these cases.
Unidentified pieces:
Analyze (describe) what you hear in this extract in terms of relevant:
*musical features: such as (but not limited to) harmony, melody, rhythm and instrumentation
*structural features: such as (but not limited to) form, phrases, motifs, texture
*contextual features: such as (but not limited to) style, time, culture, geography, and history
for high marks all three of the above features must be addressed in detail using accurate musical terminology
basically, write an analysis.
work in rough first, bullet point
*melody: contour, range, register, phrases
*harmony: tonality, cadence points, dissonances, unusual chords
*rhythm: meter/time signature, accents, duple/triple, tempo
*texture: monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic, density, combinations of above
*tone color: instruments, vocal, mixed, language, solo or group/ensemble
*form: sonata, binary, ternary, them and variations, rondo, minuet and trio, concerto, fugue, other
*purpose: celebration, festival, religious, non religious etc
*context: possible period, time frame, genre etc
Hope it'll help...