Additional Assessment Materials

Summer 2021

Pearson Edexcel GCSE in Music

Source Set 1: Area of Study 4 Question
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 Section A

Answer ALL questions: Write your answers in the spaces provided.

Some questions must be answered with a cross in the box. If you change your
mind about answer, put a line through the box and then mark your answer with a
cross

Afro Cell Sound System: Release (from the album ‘Volume 2: Release’)

1 Listen to the following extract which will be played three times.

(a) Name the first percussion instrument heard.

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(b) Identify two technological processes used when the first voice enters.
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(c) Describe the melody heard at the end of the extract.

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(d) Identify three features of this extract which are characteristic of electronic dance
music. You should refer to the following: harmony, rhythm and metre, and texture
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Harmony

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Rhythm and metre

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Texture

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Afro Cell Sound System: Release

3 Listen to the following extract which will be played three times.

(a) Name the instrument playing the melody at the start of the extract.
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(b) Explain how the music of the instrumental session is typical of Celtic dance music.
You should refer to two of the following: metre, rhythm, melody and texture.
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(c) State one musical feature of this extract which is not typical of Celtic dance music.
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(d) List three technological processes used in the production of this extract.
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Afro Cell Sound System: Release (from the album ‘Volume 2: Release’)

4 You will hear extracts, A and B.

You will hear both extracts three times in the following order: AB, AB, AB.

(a) The melody in extract A is based on a repeated rhythmic pattern.

Identify the rhythmic pattern.

Put a cross in the correct box.

(1)

(b) Name the musical device played by Bodhran.

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(c) Identify two similarities between extract A and extract B.

You should refer to musical elements.

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(d) Identify one instrument heard in extract B but not in extract A.

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(e) These extracts combine elements of African and Irish music

Apart from instrumentation, identify two African musical features heard in either of
these tracks
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Esperanza: Samba Em Preludio (0.00-0.45)

5 Listen to the following extract which will be played three times.

(a) Which one of the following correctly describes the tonality of the extract?
(1)

Put a cross in the correct box.

A Atonal
B Major
C Minor
D Pentatonic

(b) List three performance techniques used by the string bass player in the extract
(3)

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(c) The mood of this extract could be described as ‘dreamy’ or ‘melancholic’.

Give two musical reasons to explain how this mood is achieved.

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 (d) Evaluate the suitability of the title Samba Em Preludio for this piece.
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Esperanza Spalding: Samba Em Preludio (from the album ‘Esperanza’)

5 Listen to the following extract which will be played three times.

(a) Name the instrument that accompanies the voice at the start of the extract.

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(b) Describe the tonality at the start of the extract.

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(c) Describe the vocal melody from when the second instrument enters.

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(d) Identify the metre of the extract. Put a cross in the correct box.
(1)

A 3/4
B 4/4
C 9/8
D 12/8

(e) The song fuses elements of Brazilian music with elements of jazz.

Describe three features of the harmony that are characteristic of jazz.

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Esperanza Spalding: Samba Em Preludio (from the album ‘Esperanza’)

6 You will hear two extracts, A and B.

You will hear each of them three times in the following order, AB, AB, AB.

(a) Identify the rhythm of the opening vocal melody in extract A. Put a cross in the
correct box.
(1)

(b) Name the accompanying instrument heard in extract A.

(1)

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(c) Name the instrument heard in extract B but not in extract A.

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(d) Identify two similarities between the start of extract A and the start of extract B
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(e) Explain how the end of extract B is different to the end of extract A.

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(f) Identify two features used in extract B that are characteristic of Jazz.

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Esperanza Spalding: Samba Em Preludio (1.43-2.22

6 Listen to the following extract which will be played three times.

(a) identify the melodic device in the vocal line at the start of the extract.
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(b) Give two rhythmic features played by the acoustic bass guitar in this extract.
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(c) Describe the texture at the end of the extract.

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(d) This song combines elements of Latin American music with Jazz.
(i) List three Jazz features in this extract.
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(ii) List two Latin American features in this extract.

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(a) You have been given the chord indications above the stave for bars 1 to 12.
Complete the table below by filling in the chords for bars 9 to 10.

(3)
Bar 9, beat 1 Bar 9, beat 3 Bar 10, beat 1

(b) The song fuses elements of Latin American music with West African music.
Identify two features of Latin American music heard in this extract.
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(c) At the end of the verse there is an instrumental solo.

(i) Name the instrument playing the solo.

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(ii) Describe one musical feature of the instrumental solo.

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(d) The extract is from a melancholy work song.

State one musical way in which an appropriate mood is achieved.

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Section B
Write your answer in the space provided.
You will hear extracts from Area of Study 4: Fusions: one familiar and one
unfamiliar. In order to answer the question you should refer to the Source
Booklet
The familiar extract, Extract A: Afro Cell Sound System: Release (from the album
‘Volume 2: Release)
The unfamiliar extract, Extract B: Panjabi MC: Mundian to Bach Ke (from the
album ‘The Album’)
You will hear both extracts three times in the following order: familiar unfamiliar,
familiar unfamiliar, familiar unfamiliar.

9. These two songs fuse musical features from popular music with musical features
from different cultures.
Evaluate how effectively Afro Celt Sound System and Panjabi MC use instrumentation
and music technology to create these two fusion songs.
The skeleton scores are provided in the Source Booklet.

You should use your knowledge of musical elements, contexts, and language in your
response.
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(Total for Question 9 = 12 marks)