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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

A
(i)

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)

Name the minor scale that has the same key signature as Gb major.

B
Name this scale.

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Write these key signatures.

(i)

(ii)

D# minor

Question 2

Cb major

Total Marks 7

INTERVALS

Name these intervals by number and quality.

(i)

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(ii)

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Write these intervals as directed.

(i)

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(ii)

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diminished 6th
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(i)

Original interval

Inversion

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(ii)

Write the inversion of this interval, and then name the inversion.

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.

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Tonic key

First modulation
Relationship to the original key
Second modulation
Relationship to the original key

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Question 4

HARMONY

Total Marks 32

20

Harmonise the following melody in four-part vocal style.

Make use of unaccented passing and auxiliary notes.

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? bc
b
b

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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.

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Question 5

Total Marks 12

CREATIVE

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.

bb 4
b
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Question 6

INSTRUMENTS

Total Marks 15

(i)

Is the flute a transposing instrument? Yes or No?

(ii)

Does the clarinet have a double reed? Yes or No?

(iii)

Does the bassoon have a crook? Yes or No?

(iv)

Does the oboe have a single reed? Yes or No?

(v)

Explain the break

Using an appropriate clef, write the range of the flute.

Describe the tone of the oboe.

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D
(i)

5
This melody appears in a score for Bb clarinet. Using an appropriate key signature,
re-write it as it would sound.

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j

& b b8
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J

(ii)

Which woodwind instrument is this melody written for?

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Question 7

FORM

Study this example of a minuet and trio by Haydn.

Describe three ways in which the trio shows contrast to the minuet.

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Total Marks 20

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Trio

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List four distinguishing features of a scherzo.

Describe the musical differences between recitative and aria and then explain the purpose of
each within large-scale works.

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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Variation 2

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