2024 HSC Music 2 paper

Describe the meaning of the following circled musical signs. Vibraphone 2, Bar 2 ...... Marimba 2, Bar 17 ......

Ross Edwards — Prelude and Dragonfly Dance (1. Prelude, for percussion quartet, 1991), bars 1–31 (excerpt 0:00–2:05, 'Ross Edwards: Ecstatic Dances' album, Tall Poppies 1994); Score Attachment A. Topic: Music 1945 to music 25 years ago.

Describe the use of dynamics in this excerpt. In your answer, make specific reference to the score.

Ross Edwards — Prelude and Dragonfly Dance (1. Prelude, for percussion quartet, 1991), bars 1–31 (excerpt 0:00–2:05, 'Ross Edwards: Ecstatic Dances' album, Tall Poppies 1994); Score Attachment A. Topic: Music 1945 to music 25 years ago.

With reference to tone colour, how is interest achieved in this excerpt? In your answer, make specific reference to the score.

Ross Edwards — Prelude and Dragonfly Dance (1. Prelude, for percussion quartet, 1991), bars 1–31 (excerpt 0:00–2:05, 'Ross Edwards: Ecstatic Dances' album, Tall Poppies 1994); Score Attachment A. Topic: Music 1945 to music 25 years ago.

Discuss the roles of performing media in this excerpt. In your answer, make specific reference to the score.

Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90, Movement I: Allegro con brio, bars 1–23 (excerpt 0:00–0:58, 'Brahms: The Symphonies' album, Warner Classics UK 2009); Score Attachment B. Topic: Music in the nineteenth century. (Exam's album-credit line misprints composer as 'Johannes Brahmson'; the score-attachment cover spells it correctly as 'Johannes Brahms'.)

Notate the pitch and rhythm of the Clarinet melody on the staves provided.

Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90, Movement II: Andante, excerpt 0:54–1:26 ('Brahms: The Symphonies' album, Warner Classics UK 2009); Clarinet in Bb melody (transposed to sounding pitch). NO score attachment ('There is no score attachment for part (b)') — guiding notes/rhythms/rests printed inline on exam page 5. Topic: Music in the nineteenth century.

Analyse how compositional devices are manipulated in the excerpt. In your answer, make specific reference to the score.

Paul Stanhope — Pulses for Piano Trio (Piano Trio No. 2 'Pulses', 2018), bars 1–68 (excerpt 0:00–1:50, 'Oranges Under the Full Moon: Chamber Music by Paul Stanhope' album, ABC Classic 2019); Score Attachment C (Part (a), bars 1–68). Topic: Mandatory — Music of the last 25 years.

Examine how tension is created in this excerpt. In your answer, make specific reference to the score.

Paul Stanhope — Pulses for Piano Trio (Piano Trio No. 2 'Pulses', 2018), bars 69–99 (excerpt 1:51–2:44, 'Oranges Under the Full Moon: Chamber Music by Paul Stanhope' album, ABC Classic 2019); Score Attachment C (Part (b), bars 69–99). Topic: Mandatory — Music of the last 25 years.

Compare how pitch and texture are used in And the Lord said, Fiat Lux by Alice Chance and at least ONE work you have studied from the mandatory topic, Music of the last 25 years (Australian focus). In your answer, make specific reference to the score of each work. Do NOT refer to the works in this paper from Questions 1, 2 and 3.

Alice Chance — And the Lord said, Fiat Lux (Fiat Lux | The Light Cycle, Mov. I; for SSA choir or solo trio, 2016), bars 42–61 (excerpt 2:29–4:06, 'In Illo Tempore – Live' album, The Song Company 2018); Score Attachment D. Mandatory topic: Music of the last 25 years (Australian focus) — comparative analysis essay of this unprepared work vs at least ONE studied work from the same topic.