Theory Paper Grade 4 1999 A Duration 2 hours TOTAL MARKS 100 eo This paper contains SEVEN questions, ALL of which should be answered. Write your answers on this paper — no others will be accepted. Answers must be written clearly and neatly — otherwise marks may be lost. 1 Look at this extract, which begins on the first beat of the bar, and then answer the {™ questions below. Hayain, Piano Sonata No. 23 Da fief ye (i) Put in the time signature. (ii) Describe the time (simple or compound; duple, triple or quadruple). (iii) Add the appropriate rest or rests to complete the last bar. (iv) Name the ornament used in the first bar. (v) On the stave below rewrite the first bar using notes and rests of twice the value and put in the new time signature. © 1999 by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 2EITHER (a) Write a rhythm on one note, with time signature and bar-lines, to fit these words. Write each syllable under the note or notes to which it is to be sung. Ihave been here before, But when or how I cannot tell. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Rhythm - Words Rhythm, Words OR (b) Write a complete four-bar rhythm in § time using the given opening, which begins on an upbeat.3 This extract comes from a piece for bassoon, The Bronte Country, by Arthur Wills. Look at it and then answer the questions which follow. Sostenuto e serioso 1 2 3 4 alll. 6 7 © 4 tempo, poco agitato 2 # # x (© 1978 by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music i (a) Give the meaning of each of these: Cc (i) sostenuto (ii) ral. (bar 4) (iii) ++ (after first note, bar 4) (iv) a tempo, poco agitato (bar 8)(b) (i) Write an enharmonic equivalent of the last note of the extract. 10 (ii) Write in a rest to fill bar 7. (iii) Put a circle round five successive notes which form part of a chromatic scale. (iv) The extract is in the key of G minor. Write A above a mediant note in this key. Write B above a submediant note in this key. () (i) Rewrite bars 5 and 6 so that they sound the same, but using the alto clef. 0 Remember to put in the key signature. (ii) The bassoon is the lowest-sounding instrument of which orchestral family? (iii) Name another orchestral family and state its lowest-sounding instrument. Family Instrument4 Describe fully the numbered melodic intervals in this passage (e.g. major 2nd). —__ J.S. Bach, Allein Gott in der Hil sei Ehr : Z mm rs15 On the staves below write the notes stated, as in the given example. Write the notes as minims (half notes) and use ledger lines as necessary. B flat below the stave G flat above the stave F double sharp within the stave D natural below the stave E double flat above the stave A sharp within the stave 6 (a) Write the key signature and put in any necessary sharps, flats or naturals to form the scale of F melodic minor. = ° 6 7 3S ~ S = 2 (b) On the stave below write in semibreves (whole notes) the descending scale of C# harmonic minor. Do not use a key signature, but put in all necessary sharps or flats. The first note of the scale is given. te BEName each of the numbered chords as tonic, subdominant or dominant. The kev is G major. (y) 2 6) Bull, Saint Thomas Wake Chord: (1) (3) . (b) Write the key signatures and triads as named below. E major Db major C# minor dominant triad subdominant triad tonic triad