AS91275 Aural

This exam will focus on your aural understanding, which involves a selection from each of the following:

· understanding of elements and expressive features (eg rhythm, pitch, timbre, dynamics, tempo, tonality, texture, harmony, form, style) and structural devices used in constructing a piece of music (eg motif, phrase, sequence, repetition, variation, cadence)

· knowledge of simple and compound time signatures, treble and bass clefs, major and minor keys (harmonic, melodic, and natural minor) up to four sharps and four flats

· notating rhythmic and melodic phrases

· identifying chords in root position, of I, II, IV, V, V⁷, VI, the Isus⁴ and Vsus⁴ chords, and jazz/rock chord equivalents eg A♭, B♭m, D♭, E♭, E♭⁷, Fm, and the A♭sus⁴ and E♭sus⁴ chords, or E, F#m, A, B, B7, C#m and the Esus⁴.