Grade 5 Aural Question

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Grade 5 Aural Question, So who wrote it?

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Louise	Mar 19 2005, 08:21 PM Post #1
Unregistered	My son took his grade 5 piano yesterday. He thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found the examiner friendly (and funny) :-) When it came to the aurals, he was asked what period the played piece was to which he answered "Classical". He was then asked "Who wrote it?" He didn't have a clue and told the examiner this. I assumed the examiner asked him just out of interest, but someone else in the waiting area said that it's one of the questions they ask. Ummm. I haven't had any students asked this before, well not that I'm aware of. BTW, he played Les Carillons, Dream and New Orleans Nightfall. He enjoyed learning them all....especially Dream. A truly beautiful piece.

saxlover	Mar 19 2005, 08:23 PM Post #2
Unregistered	ive never been asked that. i think they can ask the candidate to suggest a possible composer, but not name the exact one!

oboist	Mar 19 2005, 08:24 PM Post #3
Unregistered	I have had pupils of mine asked to assess the period of music in the last test of Grade 5 upwards and then been asked for a possible composer. Clearly, unless you know the music you'll probably not get the right answer but I suppose if you hear a Baroque piece and say it's by Brahms, something hasn't quite sunk in about music history that well yet.

sbhoa	Mar 19 2005, 08:26 PM Post #4
Unregistered	They just want to know a possible composer... so for classical Mozart is a pretty safe bet.

Louise	Mar 19 2005, 08:32 PM Post #5
Unregistered	Oh well. He says that he said he didn't have a clue but nice piece though :lol:

saxlover

Mar 19 2005, 08:53 PM

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QUOTE (Louise @ Mar 19 2005, 08:32 PM)

He says that he said he didn't have a clue but nice piece though :lol:

always a good idea to try that! think ill say that on wednesdaY!

be interesting to see the examiners comments on it!

Louise	Mar 19 2005, 09:47 PM Post #7
Unregistered	I think he'll be okay. He's very aurally orientated and could have possibly answered the question but he wasn't expecting it. He said the rest of the aural went okay. Now...sight reading...that'll be interesting. He hates sight reading! The scales were okay, though he said he played F minor contrary motion when he was asked for F major. Whoops. He plays his pieces very musically, so fingers crossed.

noodle

Mar 19 2005, 11:30 PM

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QUOTE (Louise @ Mar 19 2005, 08:21 PM)

When it came to the aurals, he was asked what period the played piece was to which he answered "Classical". He was then asked "Who wrote it?" He didn't have a clue and told the examiner this

They can ask you to name a possible composer from grade 5 and above. I was practising this test with a 13 year old last week. I played him a piece from Christopher Norton's microjazz and asked him who he thought wrote it. I thought he was joking when he replied Shakespeare but he wasn't! I wonder what an examiner would have said about that?

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