GCSE Music (Edexcel)

  • 40% exam and 60% controlled assessment
  • 1 examination: Paper 3 – Friday 9th June 2017 (am) (40% of final mark)

Music – Paper 3: 1 hour and 30 minutes in total – 2 sections

  • Section A(68 marks) – you willspend approx. 1 hour on this section, as timed by the CD

Question/Task / AoS tested / Maximum mark / Timing
Listen to the extract X number of times and answer the questions. You have one minute reading time before each extract is heard for the first time and 3 minutes to finish your answers after the last playing. / You have one minute reading time before each extract is heard for the first time and 3 minutes to finish your answers after the last playing.
Question 1
Focuses on either the Handel, Mozart or Chopin set work / AoS1 / Unknown until we see the paper / Timing as per the CD
Question 2
Focuses on either the Handel, Mozart or Chopin set work / AoS1 / Unknown until we see the paper / Timing as per the CD
Question 3
Focuses on either the Schoenberg, Reich or Bernstein set work / AoS2 / Unknown until we see the paper / Timing as per the CD
Question 4
Focuses on either the Schoenberg, Reich or Bernstein set work / AoS2 / Unknown until we see the paper / Timing as per the CD
Question 5
Focuses on either the Moby, Jeff Buckley or Miles Davis set work / AoS3 / Unknown until we see the paper / Timing as per the CD
Question 6
Focuses on either the Moby, Jeff Buckley or Miles Davis set work / AoS3 / Unknown until we see the paper / Timing as per the CD
Question 7
Focuses on either the Rag Desh, Yiri or Capercaillie set work / AoS4 / Unknown until we see the paper / Timing as per the CD
Question 8
Focuses on either the Rag Desh, Yiri or Capercaillie set work / AoS4 / Unknown until we see the paper / Timing as per the CD
  • Section B(12 marks) – spend 30 minutes on this section

Answer 1 question from a choice of 2 questions – either question 9 or 10. Questions a) and b) will be worth 1 mark each. Question c) is worth 10 marks. You must write about the set work, commenting on all 5 of the given bullet points and using musical vocabulary to describe the music.