The Universities of Melbourne, Adelaide and Western Australia, the Minister for Education in New South Wales, the Minister for Education, Training and Employment in Queensland and the Minister for Education and Skills, Tasmania, through the University of Tasmania
THEORY - FIFTH GRADE 9.30 AM to 12.30 PM
Wednesday 21st August 2013 Time allowed: Three hours
Write your candidate number in the space at the top of this paper. Write your answers neatly and clearly on this paper and return it to the Supervisor.
Question 1
KEYS AND SCALES
Total Marks 9
6
A (i)
5
Write the scale of Gb major. • • • • •
Write the key signature. Use minims. Write two octaves ascending. Mark each tone with a slur. Complete the scale with a double barline.
(ii)
1
Name the minor scale that has the same key signature as Gb major.
Write the inversion of this interval, and then name the inversion.
1
Is this interval a diminished 5th?
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Yes or No?
Question 3
MODULATION
Total Marks 5
This melody modulates from the tonic key twice. Name • the original key. • the key of each modulation. • the relationship of each modulation to the original key.
In pianoforte style, harmonise the notes under each of the four brackets with a cadence and an approach chord. The passage includes modulation to related keys. Show one example of each of the four principal cadences.
Answer only ONE part of this question. EITHER Write a melody in G major to the following stanza of poetry. • • • •
Write the words clearly under the notes. Use hyphens for words of more than one syllable. Mark the phrasing. Modulation is optional. When the cows were safely yarded, And the calves were in the pen, All the cares of day discarded, Round the fire we clustered then. (Lawson, Mount Bukaroo)
OR Continue the given opening to make a balanced eight-bar melody. • Mark the phrasing. • Modulation is optional.
Describe the musical differences between recitative and aria and then explain the purpose of each within large-scale works.
D
5
Study the following music which is a theme and two variations from a work by Handel. Briefly describe how the theme is altered and developed in the variations.
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